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C 202 key terms
Economics and Economic Activities
Capital goods | manufactured or constructed items that are used to produce goods and services |
Consumer | anyone who uses goods and services |
Decision-making | choosing among alternatives |
Distribution | the process or activity by which income is divide 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 trading one good/service for another |
Free goods | Items that can be obtained without money |
goods | tangible objects that can 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 customers |
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 for than other |
price | the amount of money paid for good, service, or resources |
producers | the people who make the 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, and capital goods in order for production to take place |
Scarcity | a condition resulting from the gap between limited resources and unlimited wants |
Services | intangible activities that are performed 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 | desire for something that may or may not be required |