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Economics
Economic Terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |