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EC-011 Glossary
Business Essentials
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Buyers market | The best time for consumers to buy; characterized by large suplly, small demand, and low prices |
| Buying power | The amount of money available |
| Complementary goods | products that are used together |
| Consumer buying power | Cash and credit a consumer has available to spend |
| Cost of production | The total amount of money spent on costs of materials, labor, taxes, ect. |
| Demand | The quanity of a good or service that buyers are ready to buy at a given place at a particular time |
| Elastic demand | A form of demand for products in which changes in price correspond to changes in demand |
| Elasticy | An indiction of how changed in price will affect changes in the amounts demanded and supplied |
| Equilibrium | The point at which the quanity supllied is equal to the quanity demaded |
| Equilibrum price | The point at which the quanity of a good that buyers want to buy is equal to the quanity that sellers are willing to sell at a certain place |
| Inelastic demand | A form of demand in which changes in price do not affect demand |
| Law of demand | Economic principle which states that the quanity of a good or service that people will buy varies inversely with the price of the good or service |
| Law of supply | Economic principle which states that the quanity of a good or service that will be offered for sale varies in direct relation to its price |
| Law of supply and demand | Economic principle which states that the supply of a good or service will incease when demand is great and decrease when demand is low |
| Sellers market | The best time for producers to sell, characterized by large demand, smalll supply, high prices |
| Standard of living | The general conditions in which people live; quality of life |
| Subsitute goods | Items that can be used in the place of others |
| Supply | The quanity of a good or service that sellers are able to willing to offer for sale at a specified price in an given period |
| Utility | Usefullness, capable of satisfying wants and needs |