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Week 15 Economics
Term | Definition |
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Producer | Those who make goods and services |
Consumer | Those who buy and use goods and services |
Goods | Things that are produced or made |
Services | Actions that people perform for others |
The 3 basic fundamental questions of Economics | What to produce? How to produce? Who to produce for? |
Economist | A person who studies the economy |
Economics | The study of how we make and spend money |
Natural Resources | Resources made by nature |
Human Resources | People who can do the work |
Capital Goods | Man made materials used to produce other goods and services (ex. buildings, machinery, equipment, tools, etc.) |
Economy | The system of how we make and spend money and/or the way goods and services are produced and consumed. |
Demand | People's desire for a particular good or service |
Means of distribution | Ways for the goods and services to reach people |
Suppy | The amount of something that is available |
export | a good or service sent to another country for sale |
import | a good or service brought in from another country for sale |
absolute advantage | the ability to produce more of a given product using a given amount of resources |
trading partners | countries an regions that trade with each other |
international trade | trade that occurs when buyers and sellers in two nations exchange with one another |