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Term | Definition |
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Capital goods | manufactured items that are used to produce goods |
Consumer | anyone who uses goods and services |
Consumption | the process of using goods and services |
Decision-making | choosing alternatives |
Distribution | the process in which income is divided among resource owners and producers |
Economic activities | consumption, exchange, production and distribution |
Economic wants | items that can be obtained by spending money |
Economics | the study of how to meet unlimited wants with limited resources |
Economizing | deciding how scarce items will be used |
Exchange | the process of trading goods for another |
Free goods | items that are obtained without money |
Goods | tangible items that are manufactured for resale |
Human resources | people who work to produce goods and services |
Income | the money recived by resource owners from consumers buying their inventory |
Natural resources | items that are found in nature |
Noneconomic want | a want that can be satisfied without spending money |
Oppourtunity cost | the benefit that is lost when you use one scarce resource for one thing rather than another |
Price | the amount of money paid for goods or services |
Producers | makes goods and services |
Production | the economic process of producing goods and services |
Resource | any item that is used to accomplish another activity |
Resource owners | people that provide human, and natural resources, as well as capital goods, in order for production to take place |
Scarcity | condition resulting in a gap of limited resources and unlimited wants for goods and services |
Services | producive acts that satisfy economic wants |
Trade-off | giving up all or one thing fo something else |
Want | a desire for something unessesary |