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Objective 1.01
Economic Systems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capital resources | Goods and money used in the production of goods and services. |
| Command economy | Economics system in which the government owns resources and dictates what is produced. |
| Competitors | business that offers the same goods to the same customers. |
| Consumers | Buys and uses the goods and services. |
| Economic Decision-making | Process of choosing which needs or wants will be satisfied. |
| Economic resources | Means from which goods and service are produced |
| Economics | Study of the decisions made for production,distribution, and consumption of goods and service to satisfy needs and wants. |
| Entrepreneurial Resource | The initiative to combine natural,human, and capital resources. |
| Free enterprise | Economic system which freedom to consume and produce goods and service exists. |
| freedom of choice | opportunity to make choices of goods and service and accept consequences of decisions. |
| Goods | Items purchased to satisfy needs and wants. |
| Human Resources | People using efforts, knowledge, and skills at work to produce goods and service. |
| Market Economy | Goods and service are owned and controlled by the people. |
| market price | the point where supply and demands are equal. |
| Marketplace | Anywhere goods and services exchange hands. |
| Mixed economy | combines elements of the commands and market economies |
| Natural resource | Raw material supplied by nature. |
| needs | necessities required for living. |
| opportunity cost | value of the next-best alternative that is forgone to produce or obtain another product. |