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Term | Definition |
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Natural Resources | Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain. |
Human Resources | The personnel of a business or organization, especially when regarded as a significant asset. |
Consumer Resources | Interactions are the core motif of ecological food chains or food webs, and are an umbrella term for a variety of more specialized types of biological species. |
Capital Resources | Are goods produced and used to make others goods and services. |
Command Economy | An economy in which production, investment, prices, and incomes are incomes are determined centrally by a governments. |
Market Economy | A system where the laws of supply and demand direct the production of goods and services. |
Traditional Economy | A system that relies on customs, history, and time-honored beliefs. |
Mixed Economy | An economic system combining private and public enterprise. |
Depression | A long and severe recession in an economy or market. |
Recession | A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters. |
Recovery | The action or process of regaining possession or control of something stolen or lost. |
Prosperity | The state of being prosperous. |
Supply | Make (something needed or wanted) available to someone; provide. |
Demand | An insistent and peremptory request, made as if by right. |
Quantity | The amount or number of a material or immaterial thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement. |
Imports | Bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale. |
Exports | Send (goods or services) to another country for sale. |
Sole Proprietorship | Is the simplest business form under which one can operate a business. |
Corporation | A company or group of people authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law. |
Partnership | The state of being a partner or partners. |
Nonprofit | Not making or conducted primarily to make a profit. |