Free Enterprise If there is a fork in the road take it because it’s always good to have more silverware.

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Free Enterprise If there is a fork in the road take it because it’s always good to have more silverware.

The purpose of a Free Enterprise is to give consumers freedom to make economic choices. The basic characteristics are: 1. Profit Motive The drive for the improvement of material well-being. 2. Open opportunity The ability for anyone to compete in the marketplace. 3. Legal equality Equal rights to all. 4. Private property rights The right to control your possessions as you wish. 5. Free contract The right to decide what agreements in which you want to take part. 6. Voluntary exchange The right to decide what and when you want to buy and sell a product. 7. Competition The rivalry among sellers to attract consumers.

Consumers Consumers: the buyers in the market Basic Roles: 1. Make economic choices 2. Join interest groups.

Government The government should always act in a way to promote the public interest. Basic Roles: 1. Public disclosure laws 2. Environmental Protection 3. Consumer Protection 4. Impose regulations

Video Questions: Eminent Domain Questions: 1. Is this an appropriate way for government to intervene in the marketplace? 2. Which features of free enterprise does this practice violate?

More Vocabulary market failures – a situation which goods are not fairly distributed. poverty threshold – income level below which a family can’t support themselves Externality – an outside influence that causes economic side effects positive externality – get something you didn’t pay for: like a kid using a park, like a neighbor planting a rose garden in their front yard. negative externality– not getting something for what you paid for, like schools for single people with no kids, parks not used

Unit 1 Test Study Words Shortagemixed economies traditional economiespoverty threshold interest groupexternality micro and macro economics market failurefactor payments centrally planned economies (pros and cons)product market economic systemScarcity opportunity costscost benefits “guns and butter”physical capital Technologypublic goods basic principles of free enterpriseeconomic stability self-interest and competition as regulating factors of free markets economic goals efficiency security and predictability freedomequitygrowth other goals such as environmental