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Economics
Term | Definition |
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land | the non man-made materials (natural resources) used to make a product or provide a service. |
labor | the skills, knowledge, time and energy of people involved in making a product or providing a service. |
capital | man made items like tools and factories used to produce a good or service. |
Factors of Production (F.O.P.) | The materials that people combine to make something that satisfies our wants or needs |
wants | the desire or need for a product or service |
production | the combination of the land,labor,and capital to make a good or provide a service. |
distirbution | the act of making or service available to people. |
consumption | the act of using a good. satisfaction may only be temporary |
benefits | the positive aspects associated with a choice. |
scarcity | the absence of something that results from the conflict between unlimited wants and limited resources |
oppurtunity cost | the most important benefit that you give up because you choose sometjing else |
traditional | everyone works for the good of everyone else. Made up of family units. "Primitive" by some standards. |
command | you have little say in economic decisions. You will do as you are told and you willlike it or else! The government or central authority controls the F.O.P. |
Weakness of bartering | inconvient in today's economy |
medium of exchange | it's what you give to get somethingelse. People accept it because they can use it for the same purpose |
standard of value | people understand the comparative worth of an object or service when its price or the money |
store of value | it can be reconized when you decide to keep it instead of spending it. You are storing it for use in the future |
money is generally accepted | everyone is willing to take money in exchange for goods and services because they to will be able to use or save it |
money is easily counted and measured | makes it easy to stablish prices, keep track of value, profits and losses. |
money is durable | money last for a long time and is not easily destroyed. |
money is convient |