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Chapter 1 Vocab
PrinBMF
Term | Definition |
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Business | The term for all the activities involved in developing and exchanging products. |
Product | Anything that can be bought or sold. |
Market | Anywhere buyers and sellers meet to buy and sell goods and services. |
Customer | Individual or group who buys products. |
Service | Action or task that is performed. |
Need | Something a person must have in order to survive. |
Profit | Difference between the income earned and expenses incurred. |
Wages | Money earned in exchange for work. |
Want | Something that a person desires, but can survive without. |
Consumer | Customers who purchase goods and services for their own use. |
Economics | Science that examines how goods and services are produced, sold, and used. |
Labor | Work performed by people in organization. |
Production | Economic resources a nation uses to make goods and supply services for its population. |
Capital | The tools, equipment, and machinery used to produce goods or provide services. |
Entrepreneurship | Willingness and ability to start a new business. |
Scarcity | When demand is higher than the available resources. |
Economic System | Organized way in which a nation chooses to use its resources to create goods and services. |
Competition | Actions taken by two or more businesses attempting to attract the same customers |
Mixed Economy | Economy in which both the government and individuals make decisions about economic resources. |
Command Economy | Economy in which the government makes all the economic decisions for its citizens. |