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Capital Resources   Resources made and used to produce and distribute goods and services; examples include tools, machinery and buildings.  
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Command Economy   An economy in which most economic issues of production and distribution are resolved through ecntral planning and control.  
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Currency   The money in circulation in any country.  
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Entrepreneur   One who draws upon his or her skills and initiative to launch a new business venture with the aim of earning a profit. Often a risk-taker, inclined to see opportunity when others do not.  
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Entrepreneurship   A characteristic of people who assume the risk of organzing productive resources to produce goods and services; a resource.  
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Exchange Rate   The price of one nation's currency in terms of another nation's currency.  
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Human Resources   The health, education, experience, training, skills and values of people. Also known as human capital.  
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Market Economy   An economy that relies on a system of interdependent market prices to allocate goods, services, and productive resources and to coordinate the diverse plans of consumers and producers, all of them pursuing their own self-interest.  
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Natural Resources (know as land)   "Gift of nature"that can be used to produce goods and services;ex:oceans,air,mineral deposits, virgin forests and actual fields of land.When investments are made to improve fields of land or other natural resources,those resources become capital resources  
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Quotas   In international trade,limit on the quantity of a product that may be imported/exported,established by govnt laws or regulations;in command economies,more typically a production target assigned by govnt planning agencies to the producers of a good/service  
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Tariff   A tax on an imported good or service  
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Trade   Voluntary exchange of goods and services for money or other goods and services.  
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Traditional Economy   An economy in which customs and habits from the past are used to resolve most econimic issures of production and distribution.  
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Industrialized   worlds wealthiest countries  
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interdependence   Countries that depend on each other for resources of goods and services  
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Per Capita GDP   Divided by the countries populations. shows individual purchasing power  
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Third world countries   countries that are also developing and lacking the economic opportunities of most indistriess  
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Devloping countries   Countries that are poor but making econimic progress  
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Embargo   When countries put a stop on trade with a certain country  
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