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Economics
Term | Definition |
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Economics | The social science that deals with the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services |
Bartering | Exchange one good or service for another |
Traditional | Based on culture and rituals |
Command | Relies on government to make all economic decisions |
Market | Consumer choices determines how industry and financial markets operate |
Mixed | Limited government involvement while applying free market concepts |
3 questions answered | How to produce it? Whom to produce for? What to produce? |
Capitailism | Economic system with private owners control the production |
Supply | How much people have |
Demand | What or how much people want |
Specialization | Making a living doing what a person dose best |
Human Capital | A supply of people who can produce goods and services |
Capital Goods | Items that people need to perform their jobs |
Natural Resources | Items that come from the world around us that we use for our own purposes |
Entrepreneur | People with new ideas that are willing to take risks to start a business or make a product |
GPD | The average annual income of a nation's citizens |
Standard Of Living | Level of comfort in everyday life |
Literacy Rate | The percent of people in a country who can read and write |
Embargo | Bans on trading with another country for political reasons |
Tariffs | A tax placed on a good(goods brought in from another country) |
Quotas | Number limit on how many items of a particular product can be imported from a particular counrtry |
Currency | Money |
Exchange Rate | Converting one nation's money into an equal value of another nation's money |