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Objective 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. |
| Consumers: | People who use goods and services to satisfy their wants. |
| Consumption: | The process or activity of using goods and services; the economic process or activity of using goods and services. |
| Convenience products: | Consumer goods and services purchased quickly and without much thought or effort. |
| Demand: | The quantity of a good or services 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 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: | 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. |
| Economic: | The study of how to meet unlimited, competing wants with limited resources . |
| Elastic demand: | A for 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. |
| Equipment: | Industrial goods used in the operation of a business but not used in the actual production of a good or service. |
| Excess demand : | The situation that exists when demand is greater than supply. |
| Excess supply: | The situation that exists when supply is greater than demand. |
| Exchanges: | The economic process of trading one good/service for another. |
| Factors of production: |