click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
mireya s.strower
social studys
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Economy | The careful management of producing,distributing, and comsuming wealth and resources. |
| Economic system | System of organizing wealth and resources. |
| Market economy | System in wich resources are owned by private citizens and economic answers come from the citizens participating in the economy. |
| Command economy | System in wich the government makes the economic decisions and owns most of the property. |
| Traditional economy | System in wich decisions are made based on how things have been done in the past. |
| Productive resources | Term reffering to natural resources, labor/human resourses, and capital resources. |
| Natural resources | Resources that are found in the enviorment. |
| Labor resources | People who work. |
| Capital resources | Goods used to make other goods or provide a service. |
| Renewable resources | Resources that can be replenished naturally. |
| Non-renewable resources | Resources that can be depleted from the enviorment. |
| Goods | Things or items we use that are produced. |
| Services | A job done for someone else. |
| Market | Anywhere goods are sold or traded. |
| Consumers | Anyone who uses goods and services. |
| Wages | an amount paid to an individual for sevices provided. |
| Capitalism, free market, laissez-fair | Other names for a market economy. |
| Scarcity | an inadequate supply of recources(not enough). |