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C202 key terms
Economics and Economic Activities
Question | Answer |
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Capital goods | 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 marking | Choosing among alternatives |
Distribution | The process or activity by which income is divided among resources owners and producers |
Economic activity | Consumption production exchange and distribution |
Economic wants | Desire for items that can only be obtained by spending money |
Economics | The study of hoe to meet unlimited competing wants with limited resources |
Economizing | The process of deciding which goods and services will be purchased or provide so that the most satisfaction cam be |
Exchange | The process of trading one good services for others |
Free goods | Items that can be obtained without money |
Goods | Tangible objects that can be manufactured or produce for resale |
Human resource | People who work to produce goods and services |
Income | The money received by resources owners and by producers for supplying goods and services customers |
Natural resources | Item that found in the nature and used to produce good and services |
Noneconomic want | A desire for something that 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 services or resources |
Producers | The people who make or provide goods and services |
Production | The economic process or activity of producing goods and services |
Resources | Any item that is used to accomplish another activity such as producing providing goods and services |
Resources owners | Those who provide human resources natural resources and capital goods and 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 economy wants |
Trade off | Given up all or part of one thing to get something else |
Want | A desire for something that may or may not be required |