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Economics
Term | Definition |
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Economics | The study of how society chooses to use scaece resources to satisfy its unlimited wants. |
Economist | Someone who studies economic theory and applies it to the world. |
Miceoecomomics | The study of a single factor of the ecomomy instead of the economy as a whole. |
Macroeconomics | The study of an entire economy or one of its principle sectors. |
Consumers | One who buys goods and products for personal use. |
Producers | A person, group, or business that makes goods or peovides services to satisfy customers. |
Goods | An object or material that can be purchased to satisfy human needs. |
Resources | Anything used to produce goods or services. |
Services | Any action or activity that is performed for a fee. |
Factors of Production | A resource to produce goods or services. |
Natural Resources | Any material provided by nature that can be used to produce goods and provide services. |
Human Resources | Any human effort put into producing goods and services |
Capital Resources | An item that is used to in the production of another product. |
Capital Goods | A building, structure, machine or tool used in the production of another product. |
Consumer Goods | A finished product that is consumed by an individual. |
Technology | Scientific and technical techniques used to produce existing products more efficiently. |
Entrepeneurship | The organizatinal activities and risk taking involved in staeting a new business. |
Entrepeneur | Someone who undertakes and develops a new business. |
Scarcity | The fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human wants in a world of limited resources. It states that society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all human wants and needs. |