Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Review of Class Discussions and Chapters Covered

What is business?
Business consists of all profit seeking activities and enterprises that provide goods necessary to an economic system. Some businesses produce tangible goods and others produce services.

Non-for-Profit business-like organization to serve the public in some way. Revenues for nfp organizations come from donations, fund raisers, grants, etc.

Factors of Production


Human Resources- Everyone who works for the company

Entrepreneurship- the willingness to take risk

Capitalism- another name for private enterprise

Natural Resources- Agriculture, Land.....

One must first decide the demographic before attempting the production aspect of business.


Basic Rights in a Privatized System:

Fair Competition
Private Property


Double Damn- GM employee strike augmented by competition releasing new attractive product

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