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Economy Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Economy | Organized way a nation provides for the needs of it's people. |
| Resources | All things used in producing goods |
| Factors of production | Land, Labor, Capital, and Entrepreneurship |
| Infrastructure | Physical development of a country |
| Entrepreneurship | Skills of people willing to invest |
| Scarcity | When resources become rare |
| Traditional economy | Government involved |
| Market economy | No government is involved in the process of business |
| Command economy | Government makes all economy decisions |
| Productivity | Output per worker |
| Gross Domestic Product | Output of goods and services |
| Gross National Product | Total dollar output of goods |
| Inflation | More money makes it worthless |
| Consumer Price Index | Measure of change in price |
| Producer Price Index | Measures wholesale price levels in the economy |
| Business cycle | Recurring changes in a economic activity |
| Expansion | Time when economy is flourishing |
| Recession | Period of economic slowdown |
| Depression | "Prolonged" recession |
| Recovery | Everything has a slow positive growth |
| Recovery | Signifies a period of economic growth |
| Approach | Come to |
| Invest | To put energy and money into something |
| Method | Way of doing something |