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Economic Systems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Economy | The social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption or goods and services |
| Bartering | Exchanging one good or service for another |
| 3 question answered | What to produce? How to produce it? For whom to produce? |
| Traditional economy | Based on traditions and customs Ex: Inuits |
| Command economy | Government decides what goods are made and how Ex: North Korea |
| Market economy | Economic systems based on free trade and competition Ex: NONE |
| Mixed economy | |
| Combination of government and privately owned businesses Ex: Almost every country in the world | |
| Capitalism | Economic system in which private owners control the production of goods and profits (free enterprise, market economy) |
| Supply | How much people have |
| Demand | What or how much people want |
| Specialization | Making a living doing what a person does best |
| Items that come from world around us that we use for our own purposes | |
| Capital goods | Items that people need to preform their jobs |
| Human Resources | Supply of people who can produce goods and services |
| Entrepreneurs | People with new ideas that are willing to take risks to start a business or make a product |
| Literacy rate | The percentage of people who can read and write, in a country |
| Standard of living | Level of comfort in an everyday life |
| GDP | The average annual income of a nationâs citizens |
| Tariffs | A tax placed on imported goods |
| Quota | Number limit on how many items of a particular product can be imported from a particular country |
| Embargo | Bans on trading with another country for political reasons |
| Currency | Money |
| Currency exchange | Converting one nationâs money into an equal value of another nationâs money |
| Natural resources |