Chapter 1 Flashcards
Quality of life
General well-being measuring access to healthcare education food
Business
An organization that seeks profit by offering products to satisfy society needs
Standard of living
Amounts of products available
Wrath of the nations and lifestyle opportunities
Good vs service
Good is tangible
Service intangible
Deflations
Economic statistic that tracks decrease in prices over period of time
Consumer price index CPI
Monthly index measures changes in price in a fixed basket of goods pruchased my typical ppl in urban area
Inflation
Economic statistics that tracks increase in prices
Unemployment rate
% measures by unemployed/ ppl in labor force
Gross domestic product (GDP)
Total $ value of all goods produced by all ppl within a country during one year period
Recession.
2 or more consecutive 3 month periods of decline in a countries GDP
Monopoly
A market with only 1 seller and barriers
Game theory
Used to model interaction between 2 or more companies to see what will happen if they change
Oligopoly
Market with few sellers
Product of differentiation
Process of developing and promoting differences between one product and all competitive products
Monopolistic
competition
Market situation with many buyers and sellers that differentiate their products from competitors