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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capital goods | Manufactured or constructed items that are used ti produce and services |
| Consumer | Anyone who uses goods and services |
| Consumption | The process or activity of using goods and services |
| Decision- making | Choosing among alterenatives |
| Distrubution | The procces or activity by which income is divided among resource owners and producers |
| Economic activites | Consumptions, production, exchange, and distribution |
| Economic wants | Desires for iteems that can only be obtained by spending money |
| Economics | The study of how to meeet unlimited, competing wants with limited resources |
| Economizing | The process of deciding which goods and services will be purchased or provided so that the most satifacation can be obtained; deciding how scarce resources will be used |
| Exchange | The process of trading one good/ service for another |
| Free goods | Items that can be obtained without money |
| Goods | Tangible objects that can bee manufactured or produced for resale |
| Human resources | People who work to produce goods and services |
| Income | The money recieved by resource owners and by produces for supplying goods and services to customers |
| Natural resources | Items that are found in nature and used to produce goods and services s |
| Non economic wants | A desire forsomething that can be satisfied without spending money |
| Opportunity cost | The benifit that is lost when you decide to use scarce resource for one purpose rather than for another |
| Price | The amount of money paidfor a good, service or red=sources |
| Produceres | The people who make or provide goods and services |
| Production | The economic process or activity of of producing goods and services |
| Resource | Any item that is used to accompish another activity, such as producing/ providding goods and services |
| Resource owner | Those who provide human resources, natural resources, and capitol goods in order of production to take place |
| Scarcity | Intangible activites that are preformed by othe people for money; productive acts that sattisfy economic wants |
| Trade iff | Giving up all or part of one thing to get something else |
| Want | A desire for something that may be required |