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business essentials
Term | Definition |
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capital goods | manufactured or constructed items that are service |
consumer | anyone uses goods and service |
consumption | the process or activity of using goods and service |
decision-making | choosing among alternatives |
distribution | the process or activity by which income is divided among resource owners and producers. |
economic activities | consumption, production, exchange, and distribution. |
economic wants | 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. |
exchange | the process of trading one good/service for another |
free goods | items that can be manufactured or produced for sale. |
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 consumers. |
natural resources | items that are found n nature and used to produce goods and services. |
noneconomic want | a desire for something that can be satisfied without sending money. |
opportunity cost | the benefit that is lost when you decide to use scarce resources for one purpose rather than for another. |
price | that amount of money paid for a goo, service, or resource. |
producers | the people who make or provide goods and services. |
production | the economic 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 owners | 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 are performed by other people for money; productive acts that satisfy economic wants. |
trade-off | giving up part or all of one thing to get something else. |
want | a desire for something that may or may not be required. |