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Myers ~ Economics
Economics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |