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business essentials
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| capital goods | manufactured or constructed items that are service |
| consumer | anyone uses goods and service |
| consumption | the process or activity of using goods and service |
| decision-making | choosing among alternatives |
| distribution | the process or activity by which income is divided among resource owners and producers. |
| economic activities | consumption, production, exchange, and distribution. |
| economic wants | desires for items that can only be obtained by spending money. |
| economics | the study of how to meet unlimited, competing wants with limited resources. |
| economizing | the process of deciding which goods and services will be purchased or provided so that the most satisfaction 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 manufactured or produced for sale. |
| goods | tangible objects that can be manufactured or produced for resale. |
| human resources | people who work to produce goods and services. |
| income | the money received by resource owners and by producers for supplying goods and services to consumers. |
| natural resources | items that are found n nature and used to produce goods and services. |
| noneconomic want | a desire for something that can be satisfied without sending money. |
| opportunity cost | the benefit that is lost when you decide to use scarce resources for one purpose rather than for another. |
| price | that amount of money paid for a goo, service, or resource. |
| producers | the people who make or provide goods and services. |
| production | the economic process or activity of producing goods and services. |
| resource | any item that is used to accomplish another activity, such as producing/providing goods and services. |
| resource owners | those who provide human resources, natural resources, and capital goods in order for production to take place. |
| scarcity | a condition resulting from the gap between limited resources and unlimited wants for goods and services. |
| services | intangible activities that are performed by other people for money; productive acts that satisfy economic wants. |
| trade-off | giving up part or all of one thing to get something else. |
| want | a desire for something that may or may not be required. |