Section 2 Flashcards
Finance
Science of management of money and other assets
Free market
Any market in which trade is unregulated , free from government intervention
What was economic deregulation
Spurred freewheeling expansion of new types of investments that fueled a vast increase in national finance and commerce
Americas growth was due to
Debt
What did consumers borrow against
Belief that the value of their money would grow
What was financial crash
Housing prices fell, homeowners were unable to pay back debt by selling house
What boom led to crash
Borrowers purchased houses they could not afford , trusting hat in a rising ,aren’t they could sell houses for profit
What is foreclosure
Proceeding , by a creditor, to regain property following a default on mortgage payments
Who was not touched by recession
Wealthy business people and large corp.
What helped get out of recession
Rich corporations reported record profits and me billionaires saw net worth a hit new heights
What did Ronald Reagan initiate
Globalization of trade and finance
Why changed work place most dramatically
Information technologies mad effect on productivity
Why called info age
Technology has changed way old works and impacted ideas
What does Friedman call WWW
Global network for collaboration
What two things come out of WWW
Individuals collaborate on projects without meeting face to face
Projects worked on from contributors nowhere in the world
Outsourcing
Transfer of business function to external service provider
What does outsourcing affect most
Software development
Two types of video conferencing
Expensive and sophisticated , telepresence
Inexpensive software form, Skype
What is video conferencing
Individuals meet face to face over Internet and have discussions related to projects working on
Open source
Practice of providing open source code for a product
What is open educational resource
Learning materials made freely available for use remixing and redistribution
What is key to firms competitiveness
Information technology , companies not able to keep up with technological advances I’ll not survive in market place of future
Using IT is most known for
Changing the basis of business from labor and manual skills to knowledge management
What is competition in area of business
Occurs when commenting firms attempt to attract buyers by offering products with greater perceived benefit