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Economics Test!
Question | Answer |
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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 |