MGMT 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-6: Strategos, Purchasing Power Parity, General Agreement On Tariffs And Trade
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Economic system: the way in which a country allocates its resources. Factors of production: the resources used to produce goods and services: labour, capitol, entrepreneurs, and natural resources. System where the govt controls all or most factors of production and makes all or most product decisions. Market economy: an economic system in which individuals control all or most factors of production and make all or most product decisions. Communism: the govt owns and operates all industries. Input market: firms buy resources that they need in the production of goods and services. Output market: firms supply goods and services in response to demand on the part of consumers. Capitalism: an economic system in which markets decided what, when, and for who to produce. Where both a command economy and a market economy; most nations are this. Privatization: the transfer of activities from the government to the private sector. Competition act: prohibit a variety of business practices that lessen competition.