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2.02 Economic Goods
Objective 2.02
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capital goods | Manufractured or onstructed 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 procees or activity of using goods and services. |
| Convenience products | Consumer goods and services purchased quickly and without much through or effort. |
| Demand | The quantity of a good or service that buyers are ready to buy at a given price at a paricular time. |
| Distribution | The economic procees or activity by which icome is divided among resource owners and producers. |
| Economic goods | Physical objects that are useful, scarce, and transferable and which satisfy economic wants. |
| Ecomomic goods | Physical objects that are useful, scarce, and transferable and which satisfy economic wants. |
| Econonmic resource | The human and natural rescourcesand 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 of something that can only be satisfied by spending money. |
| Economics | The study of how to meet unlimited, competing wantswith 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 amounts demanded and supplied. |
| Equilibrium |