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Economic Systems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Economics | The social science that deals with the production , distribution,and consumption of goods and services |
| Bartering | Exchanging 1 good or service for another |
| Questions Answered | What to produce? How to produce it? For whom to produce? |
| Traditional Econmy | All members of the economy own the natural resources and there is no profit |
| Command Econmy | The government decides what good are made and how they will be made |
| Market Econmy | Economic System based on free trade and competition |
| Supply | How much people have |
| Demand | What/how much people want |
| Specialization | Making a living doing what a person does best |
| Mixed Econmy | Combination of government and privately owned buisnesses |
| Human Capital | A supply of people who can produce goods & services |
| Entrepenur | People with new ideas that are willing to start a business/make a product |
| Natural Resorces | Items that come from the world around us that we use for our own purposes |
| Capital Goods | Items that people need preform their job |
| GDP | The average annual income of a nation's citizens |
| Standard of Living | Level of comfort in everyday life |
| Literacy Rate | The percentage of people in a country who can read or write |
| Specialization | Making a living doing what a person does best |
| Currency | Money |
| Exchange Rate | Converting 1 nation's money into an equal value of another nation's money |
| Embargo | Bans on trading with another country for political reasons |
| Tariffs | A tax placed on imported goods brought in from another country |
| Quotas | A number limit on haw many items of particular product can be imported from a particular country |