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Economics Test!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Economics | the study of how people or countries manage their limited resources by providing, exchanging, and using goods and services. |
| Traditional Economy | economic system in which social rules and culture decide what will be produced, how it will be produced, and how it will be distributed. |
| Command Economy | economic system in which the government decides what will be produced, how it will be produced, and how it will be distributed. |
| Market Economy | economic system in which the people decide what will be produced, how it will be produced, and how it will be determined. |
| Mixed Economy | economic system in which the government and people share the role in deciding what will be produced, how it will be produced, and how it will be distributed. |
| Specialization | when a country focuses resources on creating fewer specific products and services than they consume |
| Trade Barriers | governmental policies that restrict, the entry of products into a country |
| Quota | limiting the amount of products that can come into a country |
| Tariff | a tax on imports |
| Embargo | cutting off all trade to a certain country because of political reasons |
| Currency | money |
| Exchange Rate | the rate at which one unit of currency can be traded for another unit of currency of another country |
| Human Capital | labor that is done by people in order to produce products |
| Capital Resource | the machines, tools, factories, land, and technology that are needed to make other products |
| Natural Resource | raw materials used to make products or "gifts of nature" |
| GDP | the amount of products and services produced in one country in one year |
| trade | voluntary exchange of products and services |
| import | a product brought into a country through trade or sell |
| export | a product leaving a country through trade or sell |
| Entrepreneur | brining together natural, capital, and human resources and take risks to develop buisinesses |