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Myers ~ Economics
Economics
Question | Answer |
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goods | things people make |
services | things people do |
consumer | a person who buys goods or services |
producer | a person or people who make a good or provide a service |
interdependence | when you depend on someone else |
trade | when you have something someone wants and they have something you want, you do this |
voluntary exchange | when people or countries choose to trade with each other, and everyone benefits from trading |
price | goods and services are allocated by its ___________ |
currency | is used to buy goods and services |
productive resources | are essential for producing goods and services |
natural resources | are resources that occur naturally and can be found in, on, or near the earth and used for producing a good or service |
human resources | the time and effort people spend to make goods or provide a service |
capital resource | sometimes called capital goods (tools used to make, build, or do something) |
entrepreneurship | an important productive resource used to create goods and services |
public goods and services | those that cannot be sold effectively in a market economy |
governments | provide public goods and services |
taxes | public goods and services are paid for by _____________ |
choices | every day we are faced with making _____________ |
benefit | the good that comes out of buying a good or service |
cost | what it costs when you buy a good or service |