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Economics
Question | Answer |
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What is traditional? | Based on customs and traditions |
Who owns the resources? | all members of the economy |
Who keeps the profits? | No money profits: goal is to survive. |
What is command? | Government decides what goods are made and how they will be made |
What is bartering? | the exchange of one good for another |
What is capitalism? | economic system in which private owners control the production of goods and profit |
What is a market economy? | an economy that operates by voluntary exchange in a free market |
How many countries have a market economy? | 0 |
What is a mixed economy? | combination of privately and government owned businesses |
What is a tariff? | a tax |
What is a quota? | a limit of imports |
What is an embargo? | a ban of exporting |
What are human resources? | people who perform the labor |
What are capital goods? | items that people need to perform their jobs |
What are natural resources? | resources that come from nature |
What is an entreprenuer? | people with ideas who are willing to take a risk |
What is a standard of living? | how well people live in a country |
What is a literacy rate? | the rate of people over 15 years old can read |
What is specialization? | producing or providing a service in what you do best |
What is opportunity cost? | value is given up when a choice is made |
What are two examples of a capital good? | technology and a spoon |
What are two examples of a natural resource? | rock and trees |
What are three ways a country can invest in its human resource? | education, training, and health |
What is an exchange rate? | how much one currency is worth in terms of another |
What is currency? | money |
What to ______? | produce |
How to _________ it? | produce |
For whom to ______? | produce |