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HOSTILE ACQUISITION: In the world of mergers, the acquisition of one company by another against the wishes of the company being acquired. Also termed a hostile takeover, this is accomplished by purchasing controlling interest in the stock of the acquired company, usually by offering to pay a price exceeding the current market price. A hostile takeover might be motivated to eliminate competition, to sell off the assets of the company for more that the takeover payment, or to temporarily inflate the price of the stock.
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SECOND ESTATE: In past centuries, this included kings, queens, dukes and others of the ruling elite. In modern times, this includes business leaders who have extensive ownership of and control over resources, especially capital, entrepreneurship, and land. See also | business | firm | private sector | business sector | entrepreneurship | blue chip | Fortune 500 | big business | ownership and control | resources | first estate | third estate | fourth estate | government functions | market failure | consumers | market control |
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NATURAL SELECTION The notion that firms best suited to the economic environment on the ones that tend to survive. The natural selection of business firms is an adaptation of the biological process of natural selection, in which biological entities best suited to the natural environment are the ones that survive. The concept of economic natural selection is aimed primarily at the profit-maximization assumption. Although firms might not seek to maximize profit on a day-to-day basis, those that come closest (intentionally or unintentionally) are the ones that remain in business.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time watching the shopping channel seeking to buy either storage boxes for your income tax returns or an AC adapter for your CD player. Be on the lookout for mail order catalogs with hidden messages.
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General Electric is the only stock from the original 1896 Dow Jones Industrial Average remaining in the current index.
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