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Midterm Review
Term | Definition |
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Business | The term for all activities involved in developing and exchanging products. |
Product | Anything that can be bought or sold. |
Good | A tangible item with physical attributes you can touch, feel and see. |
Consumers | An individual who purchase goods and services for their own use. |
Utility | The characteristics of a product that satisfy wants and needs. |
Market | Anywhere buyers and sellers meet to buy and sell goods and services. |
Profit | The difference between the income earned and the expenses incurred by a business during a specific period of time. |
Economics | A science that examines how goods and services are produced, sold and used. |
Scarcity | This develops when demand is higher than the available resources, which causes prices to rise as demand increased. |
Economic System | An organized way in which a nation chooses to use its resources to create goods and services. |
Market Economy | The individuals are free to make their own economic decisions. |
Market Forces | The economic factors that affect the price, demand and availability for a good or service. |
Demand | The quantity of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to purchase at various prices. |
Supply | The quantity of a good or service that business or producers are willing and able to sell at various prices. |
Innovation | The development or improvement of products, ideas or methods. |
GDP | The market value of all final products produced in a country during a specific period of time. |
Inflation | The general rise in prices throughout an economy. |
Stock Market | A system and marketplace for buying and selling stocks. |
Stock | A partial ownership of a company or business. |
Contract | A legally binding agreement between two or more people or businesses. |
Business Law | Refers to the laws, regulations and legal principles that govern the formation, operation and closure of businesses. |
Recall | An order to remove or repair unsafe products in the market. |
Business Ethics | These are principles that help define appropriate behavior in a business setting. |
Morals | An individual's ideas of what is right and wrong. |
Social Responsibility | Behaving with sensitivity to social, environmental and economic issues. |
Philanthropy | Promoting the welfare of others. |
Market Structure | Refers to how a market is organized based on the number of businesses competing for sales in an industry. |
Monopoly | A market structure with one business that has complete control of a market's entire supply of goods and services. |
Proprietorship | A business that is owned and often operated by a single individual. |