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Chapter 19
Term | Definition |
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Goods | Tangible products that we use to satisfy our wants and needs |
Services | Work performed by a person for someone else |
Factors of production | Resources necessary to produce goods and services |
Natural resources | Gifts of nature that makes products possible |
Labor | Human effort directed toward producing goods and services |
Capital | Previously manufactured goods used to make other goods and services |
Entreprenuer | Individual who starts a new business, introduces a new product, and improves a management technique |
Gross Domestic product | Total dollar value of all final goods and services produced in a country during a single year |
Standard of living | The material well being of an individual, group, or nation measured by how well their necessities and luxuries are satisfied |
Market | Free and willing exchange of goods and services between buyers and sellers |
Factor market | A market where productive resources are brought and sold |
Product market | A market where producers offer goods and services for sale |
Productivity | The degree to which resources are being used efficiently to produce goods and services |
Specialization | When people, business, regions, and/or nations concentrate on goods and services |
Division of labor | The breaking down of a job into separate, smaller tasks to be performed individual |
Economic interdependence | A reliance on others, as they rely on you, to provide goods and services to be consumed |
Capitalism | A system in which private citizens own most of it, if not all, of the means of production and decide how to use them within legislated limits |
Free enterprise | Economic system in which individuals and businesses are allowed to compete for profit with a minimum of government interference |
Consumer sovereignty | The role of consumer as the ruler of the market, determining what products will be produced |
Private property rights | Private Property Rights The freedom to won and use our own property as we choose as long as we do not interfere with the rights of others |
Competition | The struggle that goes on between buyers and sellers to get the best products at the lowest prices. |
Profit | The money a business receives for it products or services over and above its cost. |
Profit motive | The driving force that encourages individuals and organizations to improve their material well-being |
Voluntary exchange | The act of buyers and sellers freely and willingly engaging in market transactions |
Laissez-faire economics | Economic system where government should not interfere in the marketplace. |