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C202 Key Terms
Economics and Economic Activities
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| capital goods | manufactured or constructed items that are used to produce goods and services |
| consumer | anyone who uses goods services |
| consumption | the process or activity of using goods and services |
| decision making | choosing among alternatives |
| distribution | the peocess or activity by which income is divided among resource owners and producers |
| econsumtion activites | consumption production exchange exchange and distribution |
| economic wants | desire for items that can only be obtained by spending miney |
| economizing | the process of decidimg |
| exchange | the process of trading |
| free good | items that can be obtained without money |
| goods | tangible obects that can be manufactured |
| human resources | people who work to produce good and service |
| income | the money received by serource owner |
| natural resoruce | items that are found in nature and used to produce |
| noneconomic want | a desire for something that can be satisfied without spending money |
| opportunity cost | the benefitthat is lost when you decide to use scarce |
| price | the amount of money paid for a good service |
| producers | the people who make or provide good and services |
| resource owner | those who provide human resources natural resources |
| scarcity | a condition resulting the gap between limited resource |
| service | intangible activities that are performed by other people |
| trade off | giving up all or part of one thing to get something else |
| want | a desire for giving that may or may not be required |