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- Module G - 5
- Industry-Trade-Economy
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- The activity that
produces goods or
provides services
- Specific Industry - companies or
groups engaged in
the same business ie. Mining, Manufacturing, packaging or
banking
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- Primary - industries that gather or extract natural resources
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- Secondary - change raw
materials into finished goods
- Packaging resources to prepare
for use or manufacturing
- Processing
- Treating
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- Provide services rather
than goods
- Transportation
- Communications
- Tourism
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- Industry requires 5 basic
inputs for production
- Natural Resources - raw materials used
to produce goods
- Minerals
- Timber
- Land & Water
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- Capitol - the company’s assets
used in the production of goods
- Buildings, equipment, machines, trucks
- Money needed to start
or expand business
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- Labor - Human activity that
provides goods and
services
- Management - Supervising and coordinating business activity
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- Technology - includes all
ways people use
tools, machines, materials and
techniques
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- Buying and selling goods
and services
- Primary goal - to give consumers the best
goods and services at
the best prices
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- Money - medium of exchange
- various metals, paper, checks, credit card
- Without money trade
would have to
be direct exchange
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- Open air market - face to face trading
- Retailers - large stores with
a collection of goods that
are made in many
foreign countries
- mail order - catalogs - internet
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- Commodity exchanges - sold by
auction - wheat,
livestock, petroleum
- Stock exchanges - New York, London, Tokyo
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- Buying and selling by
different countries
- Imports - purchases from another country
- Exports - sales to another country
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- Government restrictions
- Tariff - paid on imported goods - makes
them more expensive
- Quotas - fixed amounts of
goods entering a
country
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- The trading of
goods and services on
a widespread basis
- Businesses will intermix trading with
many other businesses
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- Capitalist - private citizens own
and operate business
- Socialist - government owns
many businesses
- Communists - government owns
almost all business and property
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- Gross National Product
- total value of
all goods and
services
- GNP per capita - GNP divided by
population
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