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BE C 2.02
Term | Definition |
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Capital Good | Manufactured or constructed items that are used to produce goods and services |
Consumer | Anyone who uses goods and services |
Consumption | The process or activity of using goods and services |
Decision-making | Choosing among alternatives |
Distribution | The process or activity by which income is divided among resource owners and producers |
Economic activates | Consumption, production, exchange, and distribution |
Economic wants | Desire for items that can only be obtained by spending money |
Economics | The study of how to meet unlimited, competing wants with limited sources |
Economizing | The process of deciding which goods and services will be purchased or provided so that most satisfaction can be obtained; deciding without money |
Exchange | The process of trading one good/service for another |
Free Goods | Items that can be obtained without money |
Goods | Tangible objects that can be manufactured or produced for resale |
Human Resources | People who work to produce goods and services |
Income | The money received by resource owners and by producers for supplying goods and services to costumers |
Natural Resources | Items that are found in nature and used to produce goods and services |
Noneconomic Want | A desire for something that can be satisfied without spending money |
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 |
Producers | The people who make and provide goods and services |
Production | The economics process or activity of producing goods and services |
Resource | Any item that is used to accomplish another activity, such as producing/providing goods and services |
Resource Owner | Those who provide human resources, natural resources, and capital goods in order for production to take place |
Scarcity | A condition resulting from the gap between limited resources and unlimited wants for goods and services |
Services | Intangible activities that a are preformed by other people for money; productive acts that satisfy economic wants |
Trade-off | Giving up all or part of one thing to get something else |
Want | A desire for something that may or may not be required |