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Economics
Government
Term | Definition |
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Trade | The exchange for something of value |
Specialization | The concentration of production on fewer kinds of goods and services that are conusumed |
Interdependance | Reliance on others to satisfy wants |
`Production | The act of combining natural resources, human resources, capital goods and entrepreneurship to make goods and services |
Consumpsion | The purchase or use of goods and services |
Goods | objects that are capable of satisfying peoples wants |
Services | Actions that are capable of satisfying peoples wants |
Market | The interaction of buyers and sellers exchanging goods and serives |
Market clearing price for goods | the one price at which quantity supplies equals quantity demanded |
Opportunity cost | the value of the best alternative given up when a choice is made |
supply | The quantities of a good or service |
demand | The quantities consumers are willing to buy |
Import | goods that are brought into a company as part of a trade |
Export | goods that leave the country as part of trade |
Scarcity | The lack of goods and services |