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Ch3: Marketing
Chapter 3: Political & Economic Analysis
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| organized way a nation provides for the needs and wants of its people | economy |
| all things used in producing goods and services | resources |
| land, labor, capital, entrepreneurship | factors of production |
| physical development of a country | infrastructure |
| skills of people willing to invest time & money to run a business | entrepreneurship |
| not enough; difference between needs & wants and available resources | scarcity |
| traditions & rituals decide what, how, & for whom things will be produced | traditional economy |
| no government is involved in economic decisions | market economy |
| governement decides what, when, how much will be produced & distributed | command economy |
| everything contained in earth or found in seas | land |
| all people who work | labor |
| money, factories, buildings, tools, raw materials, goods used in production process | capital |
| output per worker hour measured over a period of time | productivity |
| output of goods & services produced in a country in a year | GDP (Gross Domestic Product) |
| total dollar value of goods & services produced by a nation at home or away | GNP (Gross National Product) |
| rising prices | inflation |
| measures the change in consumer price over a period of time | CPI (Consumer Price Index) |
| measures wholesale levels in the economy | PPI (Producer Price Index) |
| recurring changes in economic activity (expansion, recession, depression, recovery) | business cycle |
| period of prosperity and growth | expansion |
| period of economic slow-down that lasts at least 6 months | recession |
| long period of recession (high unemployment, businesses close, customers don't buy, production drops) | depression |
| period of renewed economic growth following a recession or depression | recovery |
| What, How, For Whom? | 3 basic economic questions |