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Economics
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 than are consumed. |
Interdependance | Reliance of others to supply wants. |
Production | The act of combining natural resourses, human resourses, capital goods and entrepreneurship to make goods and services. |
Consumption | The purchase or use of goods or services. |
Goods | Object that satisfy peoples wants. |
Services | Actions that satisfy peoples wants. |
Marking clearing price for goods | When supply and demand are equal. |
Opportunity cost | The value of the next best price |
Supply | The amount of the product available. |
Demand | The amount consumers are willing to give for a product. |
Import | Goods that are brought into a different country. |
Export | Goods that leave a country as part of trade. |
Scarcity | The lack of goods and services people desire. |