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economy
economy vocab
Term | Definition |
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economy | oganized way a nation provides for the needs of their people |
economic resources | all the things used in producing goods and services |
Factors of Production | Land, Labor, capital, and entrepreneurship |
infrastructure | the physical development of a country |
entrepreneurship | skills of people willing to invest their time and money to run a business |
scarcity | difference between wants and needs |
traditional economy | habits, traditions and rituals answer the basic questions of what how and whome |
market economy | no gov involvement in economic decisions |
command economy | a sysytem in which a country or government makes all economic decisions |
productivity | output per worker hour thats measured over a defined period of time week, month, or year. |
GDP (Gross Domestic Product) | Output of goods/services produced by labor in a country |
inflation | refers to rising prices |
CPI (Consumer Price Index) | Measures change in price over a period of time and retail goods in a specific household |
PPI (Producer Price Index) | meaures wholesale price levels in the economy |
business cycle | reoccuring changes in economic activity |
expansion | time when the economy is flourishing |
recession | period of economic slowdown |
depression | prolonged recession |
recovery | signifies period of economic |
approaches | ways to handle a situation |
theory | a reason |
invest | putting in time and money |
method | way of doing something |