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It is a place where buyers and sellers can meet to facilitate the exchange or transaction of goods and services.
Market
Identify and enumerate.
What information is transmitted between buyers and sellers in the market?
a. goods and services desired by customer
b. price of goods and services
Whose doctrine states that the market is a free market where the producers and consumers act in accordance to their own interest.
Adam Smith
What was Adam Smith’s doctrine named as?
Laissez Faire
It is a basic economic concept involving the buying and selling of goods and services.
Trade
It is the exchange of goods and services, especially on a large scale.
Commerce
It includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that operate in a country or in international trade.
Commerce
Complete the sentence.
In the economic sense, “commerce” refers to the () among economic agents.
conduct of trade
Idenitfy the role of business in economy provided the description below.
Businesses bring specialized people, equipment, and other resources together and coordinate the production of goods and services.
Product or Service Specialization
Idenitfy the role of business in economy provided the description below.
When more units of a good or service can be produced on a larger scale, yet with (on average) less cost input, this is achieved.
Economies of Scale
Idenitfy the role of business in economy provided the description below.
What do you call a benefit or cost which is enjoyed or suffered by a third party, such as society, rather than the producer or consumer of a good or service?
Externality
(under positive and negative externalities)
Identify whether it is positive or negative externality and explain why.
Factories that are efficient in production, however they pollute water and land
Negative Externality
(Companies enjoy the first hand benefit of higher rates of production, yet society and the environment suffer the consequences of pollution)
Identify whether it is positive or negative externality and explain why.
Companies benefit from hiring employees who are educated because they are knowledgeable.
Positive Externality
(This benefits employers because a better-educated workforce requires less investment in employee training and development costs.)
Identify whether it is positive or negative externality and explain why.
Walking to work or taking a bicycle reduces congestion.
Positive Externality
(Walking and riding a bicycle is personally exhausting, but it also reduces both automobile congestion and pollution)
Enumerate.
What are the three business opportunities?
- Distributorship
- Rack Jobbing
- Vending Machine Routes