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Economics
Economic Terms
Term | Definition |
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Demand | A consumer's willingness to buy a product. |
Supply | A producer's willingness to sell a product. |
Traditional (barter) | Trade of goods and services without using money or any other type of currency. |
Free market economy | Individual business owners make decisions about prices and production. |
Command economy | Government owns all of the means of production and gets to make decisions about what is produced and the prices. |
What do producers always want? | More money for their product. |
What do consumers always want? | To pay less money for products. |
Goods | Items that we buy that have physical property. (You can touch it.) |
Services | Work that is done for people that can be bought and sold. |
Surplus | When there exists too much of a good or service. |
Scarcity | When a good or service is in short supply. |
Equilibrium | When supply matches demand. |
Market | A place where goods and services are bought and sold. |
Substitute good | Two goods that could be used for the same purpose. |
Complimentary good | A good that is usually used in conjunction with another good. |
Mixed Economy | A combination of the free market and command economy. |