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economics vocabulary
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| scarcity | inadequate supply of resources (not enough) |
| goods | things or items we use that are produced |
| services | a job done for someone else |
| economy | the carefulmanagement of producing, distributing, and consuming wealth and resources |
| natural resources | these are found in the enviroment |
| market | anywhere goods are sold or traded |
| capital resources | goods used to make other goods or provide a service |
| wages | amount paid to an individual for services provided |
| consumer | one who uses goods and services |
| labor resource | people who work |
| economic system | system of organizing wealth and resources |
| traditional economy | decisions are made based on how things have been done in the past |
| command economy | the government makes economic decisions and owns most of the property |
| market economy | resources are owned by private citizens and economic answers come from the citizens participating in the economy |
| productive resources | natural resources, labor/human resources, and capital resources |
| renewable resources | resource that can be replenished naturally |
| non-renewable resource | resources that can be depleated from the enviroment |
| other names for market economy | capitalism, free market system, laissez-faire |