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economics vocab (:
economics vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is scarcity | inadequate supply of receources |
| what are goods | things or items we use that are produced |
| what are services | a job for someone else |
| what is economy | the care ful management of producing distrubuting and consuming wealth and resceources |
| definition of natural receources | these are found in the enviorment |
| anywhere where goods are sold | market |
| goods used to make other goods or provide a service | capitol receources |
| amount paid to an induvidual for services provided | wages |
| anyone who uses goods | consumer |
| people who work | labor rescource |
| economic system | system of organizing wealth and recources |
| definition of TRADITIONAL ECONOMY | decisions are made based on how things have been done in the past |
| COMMAND ECONOMY | the government makes the economic decisions and owns most property |
| market economy | recources are owned by private citizens and economic answeres come from the citisens participating inthe economy |
| productive recources | natural recources labor human recources and capitol recources |
| renewable recources | recources that can be replenished naturally |
| nonrenewable recources | recources that can be depleted by the enviorment |
| other names for market economy | capitialism,free market system,laissez faire |