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Term | Definition |
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wants | A desire for something that is not required. |
economic wants | A desire for something that can only be satisfied by spending money. |
noneconomic wants | Desires for things that can be obtained without spending money |
scarcity | A condition resulting from the gap between limited resources and unlimited wants for goods and services. |
economic goods | Physical objects that are useful, scarce, and transferable and which satisfy economic wants. |
economic services | Productive acts that are useful, scarce, and transferable and which satisfy economic wants. |
economics | The study of how to meet unlimited, competing wants with limited resources |
natural resources | Items found in nature that are used to produce goods and services |
human resources | People who work to produce goods and services. |
capital goods | Manufactured or constructed items that are used in the production of goods and services. |
production | The economic process or activity of producing goods and services. |
consumer goods and services | Products produced for personal consumption. |
consumption | The process or activity of using goods and services; the economic 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 | The economic process or activity by which income is divided among resource owners and producers. |
economics resources | The human and natural resources and capital goods used to produce goods and services. |
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 | The point at which the quantity supplied is equal to the quantity demanded |
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 economic process of trading one good/service for another. |
Factors of production | Productive resources; human and natural resources and capital goods. |
Industrial goods and services | Products purchased by producers for resale, to make other goods and services, and/or to use in business operations. |
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 |
Law of supply | Economic principle which states that the quantity of a good or service that will be offered for sale varies in direct relation to its price. |
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. |
need | Something required or essential that is lacking. |
Opportunity cost | The benefit that is lost when you decide to use scarce resources for one purpose rather than for another. |
price | The amount of money paid for a good, service, or resource. |
production | The economic process or activity of producing goods and services. |
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. |
trade-off | Giving up all or a part of one thing in order to get something else. |