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Economics Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Trade | The exchange of something of value. |
Specialization | The concentration of production on fewer kinds of goods and services are consumed. |
Interdependence | Reliance on others satisfy wants. |
Production | The act of combining natural resources, human resources, capital goods and entreprenuership. |
Consumption | The purchase or use of goods and services |
Goods | Objects that are capable of satisfying peoples's wants. |
Services | Actions that are capable of satisfying peoples's wants. |
Market | The interaction of buyers and sellers exchanging goods and services. |
Market Clearing Price for Goods | The one price at which quanity supplied equals quanity demanded (Also referred to as the equailibrium point). |
Opportunity Cost | The value of the next best alternative given up when a choice is made. |
Supply | The quantities of a good or service that producers are willing and able to provide various prices during a given time period. |
Demand | The quantities of a good or a service that consumers are willing and able to buy at various prices during a given period |
Import | Goods that are brought into a country as part of trade. |
Export | Goods that leave a country as part of trade. |
Sarcity | The lack of sufficient resources to produce all the goods and services people desire. |