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Economics
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Economics | The study of how society chooses to use scaece resources to satisfy its unlimited wants. |
| Economist | Someone who studies economic theory and applies it to the world. |
| Miceoecomomics | The study of a single factor of the ecomomy instead of the economy as a whole. |
| Macroeconomics | The study of an entire economy or one of its principle sectors. |
| Consumers | One who buys goods and products for personal use. |
| Producers | A person, group, or business that makes goods or peovides services to satisfy customers. |
| Goods | An object or material that can be purchased to satisfy human needs. |
| Resources | Anything used to produce goods or services. |
| Services | Any action or activity that is performed for a fee. |
| Factors of Production | A resource to produce goods or services. |
| Natural Resources | Any material provided by nature that can be used to produce goods and provide services. |
| Human Resources | Any human effort put into producing goods and services |
| Capital Resources | An item that is used to in the production of another product. |
| Capital Goods | A building, structure, machine or tool used in the production of another product. |
| Consumer Goods | A finished product that is consumed by an individual. |
| Technology | Scientific and technical techniques used to produce existing products more efficiently. |
| Entrepeneurship | The organizatinal activities and risk taking involved in staeting a new business. |
| Entrepeneur | Someone who undertakes and develops a new business. |
| Scarcity | The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human wants in a world of limited resources. It states that society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all human wants and needs. |