Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Quality of life

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General well-being measuring access to healthcare education food

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2
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Business

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An organization that seeks profit by offering products to satisfy society needs

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3
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Standard of living

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Amounts of products available
Wrath of the nations and lifestyle opportunities

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4
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Good vs service

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Good is tangible
Service intangible

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5
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Deflations

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Economic statistic that tracks decrease in prices over period of time

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6
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Consumer price index CPI

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Monthly index measures changes in price in a fixed basket of goods pruchased my typical ppl in urban area

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7
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Inflation

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Economic statistics that tracks increase in prices

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8
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Unemployment rate

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% measures by unemployed/ ppl in labor force

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9
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Gross domestic product (GDP)

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Total $ value of all goods produced by all ppl within a country during one year period

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10
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Recession.

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2 or more consecutive 3 month periods of decline in a countries GDP

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11
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Monopoly

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A market with only 1 seller and barriers

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12
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Game theory

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Used to model interaction between 2 or more companies to see what will happen if they change

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13
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Oligopoly

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Market with few sellers

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14
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Product of differentiation

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Process of developing and promoting differences between one product and all competitive products

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15
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Monopolistic
competition

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Market situation with many buyers and sellers that differentiate their products from competitors

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16
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Equilibrium price

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Price at which quantity demanded is exactly equal to quantity supplied

17
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Demand

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Quantity of products buyers are willing to purchase

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Supply

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Quantity of products producers r willing to sell

19
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Perfect (pure) competition

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Market situation where there are many buyers and sellers no single buyer or seller strong enough to affect price

20
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Competition

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Rivalry among business for sales to potential customers

21
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Mixed economy

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Economic system where most land and business are pracetly owned with various levels of gov involvement

22
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Socialism

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Economic system where building roads (infrastructure ) is owned and controlled by gov

23
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Command economy

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Economic system where gov decides what who and how things will be produced and who for

24
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Market economy

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Economic system based off competition in marketplace in which individual own and operate most businesses

25
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Factors of production

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resources used to create goods including natural resources capital labour entrepreneurship akd knowledge

26
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Economic system

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Combination of policies laws and choices made by gov

27
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Economy

A

Way ppl deal with creation and distribution of wealth

28
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Environmental scan

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Process of gathering info about enterbal environment to determine how it May potentially impact business operations