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Term | Definition |
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Buyer’s Market | The best time for consumers to buy; characterized by large supply, small demand, and low prices. |
Capital goods | Manufactured or constructed items that are used in the production of goods and services. |
Consumer | Anyone who uses goods and services. |
Consumer Goods | Tangible items produced for personal use. |
Consumption | The process or activity of using goods and services. |
Demand | The quantity of a good or service that buyers are ready to buy at a given price at a particular time. |
Distribution | A marketing/business function that is responsible for moving, storing, locating, and/or transferring ownership of goods and services |
Economic Resources | The human and natural resources and capital goods used to produce goods and services. |
Economic Want | Desires for items that can only be obtained by spending money. |
Economics | The study of how to meet unlimited, competing wants with limited resources. |
Economizing | The process of deciding which goods and services will be purchased or provided so that the most satisfaction can be obtained; deciding how scarce resources will be used. |
Elastic Demand | A form of demand for products in which changes in price correspond to changes in demand. |
Elasticity | An indication of how changes in price will affect changes in the amounts demanded and supplied. |
Equilibrium Price | The point at which the quantity of a good that buyers want to buy is equal to the quantity that sellers are willing to sell at a certain price. |
Excess Demand | The situation that exists when demand is greater than supply. |
Excess Supply | The situation that exists when supply is greater than demand. |
Exchange | The process of trading one good/service for another. |
Factors of Production | Productive resources; human and natural resources and capital goods. |
Form Utility | Usefulness created by altering or changing the form or shape of a good to make it more useful to the consumer. |
Goods | Tangible objects that can be manufactured or produced for resale. |
Human Resources | People who work to produce goods and services. |
Industrial Goods | Tangible items that will be consumed by industrial users. |
Inelastic Demand | A form of demand in which changes in price do not affect demand. |
Law of Demand | Economic principle which states that the quantity of a good or service that people will buy varies inversely with the price of the good or service. |
Law of Supply and Demand | Economic principle which states that the supply of a good or service will increase when demand is great and decrease when demand is low. |
Market Price | Actual price that prevails in a market at any particular moment. |
Natural Resources | Any resource found in nature that is used to produce goods and services. |
Noneconomic Want | Desires for things that can be obtained without spending money. |
Opportunity Cost | The benefit that is lost when you decide to use scarce resources for one purpose rather than for another. |
Place Utility | Usefulness created by making sure that goods or services are available at the place where they are needed or wanted by consumers. |
Possession Utility | Usefulness created when ownership of a product is transferred from the seller to the user. |
Price | The amount of money paid for a good, service, or resource. |
Producer | The people who make or provide goods and services. |
Production | The economic process or activity of producing goods and services. |
Rationing | A function of relative prices that determines who gets the goods and services produced; determining how scarce resources will be distribute. |
Relative Prices | One price compared to another; the ratio between two prices. |
Scarcity | A condition resulting from the gap between unlimited wants for goods and services and limited resources. |
Seller’s Market | The best time for producers to sell; characterized by large demand, small supply, and high prices. |
Services | Intangible activities that are performed by other people for money; productive acts that satisfy economic wants. |
Substitution Effect | A phenomenon that occurs when changes in relative prices cause buyers to replace the purchase of one product with another. |
Supply | The quantity of a good or service that sellers are able and willing to offer for sale at a specified price in a given time period. |
Time Utility | Usefulness created when products are made available at the time they are needed or wanted by consumers or to complete specific business activities. |
Trade-Off | Giving up all or a part of one thing in order to get something else. |
Utility | Usefulness; capable of satisfying wants and needs. |
Want | A desire for something that may or may not be required. |