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business essentials
ch.1
Term | Definition |
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needs | things required to live |
wants | things that add comfort to your life |
goods | things you can see and touch |
services | activities that are consumed the same time they are produced |
economic resources | means through with goods and services are produced |
factors of production | economic resources |
natural resources | raw materials supplied by nature |
human resources | people who produce goods and services |
entrepreneur | use resources in a new way to make a new product |
capital resources | products and money used in production of goods and services |
basic economic problem | mismatch of unlimited wants and needs |
scarcity | not having enough resources to satisfy every need |
choices | decisions among the alternatives |
economic decision making | process of choosing which wants among several options |
trade off | giving up something to have something else |
economic system | nations plan for answering the three economic questions |
command economy | resources are owned and controlled by government |
market economy | resources owned and controlled by people |
marketplace | anywhere that goods and services trade hands |
traditional economy | goods and services are produced the way it has always been done |
mixed economy | combines elements of the command and market economies |
communism | a command economic system |
capitalism | private ownership of resources |
private property | can own use or depose things of value |
freedom of choice | can make independent decisions |
profit | money left from sales after everything has been paid |
competition | rivalry among busnesses |
demand | quantity of a good or service someone is willing to buy |
supply | quantity of a good or service a buisness is willing to supply |
competitors | buisnesses offering similar products as others |
market price | were supply and demand are equal |