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Entrepren - Econ
Entrepreneurship - Economic Terms
Question | Answer |
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Items that are not a necessity for survival | Wants |
Items that are necessary for survival | Needs |
Tangible objects that satisfy people's wants | Goods |
Intangible activities that people do for others to satisfy their wants | Services |
Unlimited Wants and Limited Resources | Scarcity |
Gifts of nature; present without human intervention | Natural Resources |
Goods produced and used to make other goods and services | Capital Resources |
The quantity and quality of human effort directed toward producing goods or services | Human Resources |
An alternative that must be given up in order to pursue another choice | Opportunity Cost |
To Furnish, provide, or satisfy | Supply |
The state of being wanted or sought for purchase | Demand |
The quantity exceeds the quantity demanded at a particular price | Surplus |
The quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied at a particular price | Shortage |
The price at which the quantity demanded equals the quantity supplied | Equilibrium Price |
Specialization of tasks within a production process so that each worker can become a specialist in doing one thing, ex. Assembly line | Specialization and Division of Labor |
When more and more units of variable resource such as labor are added to a fixed resource such as capital, eventually the additional output associated with the variable resource declines | Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns |
Consumers generally receive less satisfaction from additional units of a good consumed | Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility |
Average cost per unit decreases as the quantity produced is increased | Economies of Scale |