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Economic Systems
Business Essentials
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capital Goods | Manufactured or constructed items that are used to produce goods and services |
| Central planning | Detailed economic processes and goals developed by goverment; usually associated with communist economies |
| Command Economy | An economic system in which all or many of the means of production and distribution are owned and controlled by the goverment. |
| Communism | A command economic system in which the goverment controls the economic system and doe snot allow private ownership of the means of podcution and distribution |
| Competiton | The rivalrybetween two or more businesses to attract scarce customer dollars |
| Consumer goods | Tangible items produced for personal use |
| Consumers | People who use goods and services to satisfy their wants |
| Demand | The quanity of a good or a service that buyers are ready to buy at a given price at a paticular time |
| Distribution | Thge processor activity by which income is divided among resource ownders and producers |
| Economic resources | The human and natrual resources and capital goods used to produce goods and services; also known as factors of prodcution |
| Economic systems | The organized way in which a country handles its economic decisions and solves its economic producers |
| Economic vote | Term used to describe consumer approval of products expressed by the pruchase of products |
| Financial capital | Money needed to operate a business |
| Goverment | A country's arrangement for making for making and enforcing laws |
| Human resources | People who work to produce goods and services |
| Human services programs | Benefits such as a free medical care, eductaion, and finacial assistance that are provided by a goverment to its citizens |
| Industrial goods | Tangible items that will be consumed |