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- Barter economy
- An economic system where goods and services are traded for other goods and services
- Business
- An organization that produces goods and services for a profit
- Capital
- Funds, goods or equipment used to operate a business
- Constant dollar
- An established standard monetary value used to compare goods and services priced by a fluctuating dollar
- Entrepreneur
- An individual that conceives a product or service, establishes a business and distributes the product or service
- Firm
- An individual business producing goods or services
- Free enterprise
- A system that allows individual choice in selection of a business
- Gross National Product
- The total value of all goods and services produced in a country in one year
- Laissez-faire
- An economic term used to describe a government policy of allowing business operation without government intervention
- Product
- A produced and marketed item and its related characteristics
- Profit
- The excess of revenue minus expenses
- Recession
- An absences of growth in the gnp in two successive quarters
- Risk
- The possibility of loss in a business
- 85%
- The share of small businesses of the total
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