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GSE Unit 10 Vocabula
GSE Unit 10 Vocabulary Quiz #2
Term | Definition |
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standard of living | the level of wealth and material comfort available to a people |
GDP per capita | the average annual income of a nation’s citizens; per capita is Latin for “by each head” |
gross domestic product (GDP) | the estimated total value of all the final goods and services produced in a nation in a year’s time. |
human capital | the knowledge, skills, and relative health of a nation’s labor force |
capital goods | the factories, machinery, technology, etc. that are necessary to sustain a service or industry |
arable | suitable for farming |
natural resource | a material on or in the earth that has economic value |
entrepreneur | those who risk their own money and resources to create a new business or service |
private sector | the part of the economy owned and operated by private citizens |
profit | as a verb, to gain financially; as a noun, the economic gains of a business |
public sector | the part of the economy owned and operated by the national government |