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Voc 2.02
Business essentials
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capital goods: | Manufactured or constructed items that are used in the production of goods and services. |
| Consumer goods and services | Products produced for personal consumption. |
| Consumption: | The process or activity of using goods and services; the economic process or activity of using goods and services. |
| Demand: | The quantity of a good or service that buyers are ready to buy at a given price at a particular time. |
| Distribution: | The economic process or activity by which income is divided among resource owners and producers. |
| Economic goods: | Physical objects that are useful, scarce, and transferable and which satisfy economic wants. |
| Economic resources: | The human and natural resources and capital goods used to produce goods and services. |
| Economic services: | Economic services: Productive acts that are useful, scarce, and transferable and which satisfy economic wants. |
| Economic want: | A desire for something that can only be satisfied by spending money. |
| Economics: | The study of how to meet unlimited, competing wants with limited resources. |
| Elastic demand | Elastic demand: A form of demand for products in which changes in price correspond to changes in demand. |
| Elasticity: | An indication of how changes in price will affect changes in the amounts demanded and supplied. |
| Equilibrium | The point at which the quantity supplied is equal to the quantity demanded. |
| Excess demand: | The situation that exists when demand is greater than supply. |
| Excess supply: | Excess supply: The situation that exists when supply is greater than demand. |
| Exchange | The economic process of trading one good/service for another. |
| Factors of production: | Productive resources; human and natural resources and capital goods. |
| Human resources: | People who work to produce goods and services. |
| Industrial goods and services: | Products purchased by producers for resale, to make other goods and services, and/or to use in business operations. |
| Industrial goods and services: | Industrial goods and services: Products purchased by producers for resale, to make other goods and services, and/or to use in business operations. |
| Law of demand: | Economic principle which states that the quantity of a good or service that people will buy varies inversely with the price of the good or service. |
| Law of supply: | Economic principle which states that the quantity of a good or service that will be offered for sale varies in direct relation to its price. |
| Law of supply and demand: | Economic principle which states that the supply of a good or service will increase when demand is great and decrease when demand is low. |
| Natural resources: | Items found in nature that are used to produce goods and services. |
| Need: | Something required or essential that is lacking. |
| Noneconomic want: | Desires for things that can be obtained without spending money. |
| Opportunity cost: | The benefit that is lost when you decide to use scarce resources for one purpose rather than for another. |
| :Price | The amount of money paid for a good, service, or resource. |
| Production: | : The economic process or activity of producing goods and services. |
| Scarcity | : A condition resulting from the gap between limited resources and unlimited wants for goods and services. |
| Supply: | The quantity of a good or service that sellers are able and willing to offer for sale at a specified price in a given time period. |
| Trade-off: | Giving up all or a part of one thing in order to get something else. |
| Want: | A desire for something that is not required. |
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