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2.02 Economic Goods
Objective 2.02
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capital goods | Manufactured or constructed items that are used in the production of goods and services. |
| Consumer goods and services | Products produces 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 quaility of a good or service that buyersare 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 resources | The human and natural resources and capital goods used to produce gooods and servies. |
| 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 |
| Economics | The study of how to meet unlimited, competing wants with limited resources. |
| Elastic demand | A form 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 amound demanded and supplied. |
| Equilibrium | The point at whiuch the quaility suppiled 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 and service |
| Excess demand | The situation |
| Excess supply | |
| Exchange | |
| Factors of production | |
| Human resources | |
| Impulse item | |
| Industrial goods and services | |
| Inelastic demand | |
| Installation | |
| Law of demand | |
| Law of supply and demand | |
| Law of supply | |
| Market Research | |
| Materials | |
| Noneconomic want | |
| parts | |
| producers | |
| product | |
| Raw materials | |
| Scarce | |
| Services | |
| Shopping products | |
| Specialty products | |
| staple item | |
| supplies | |
| tangible | |
| ultimate consumer | |
| unsought products | |
| want |