Economics Flashcards

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The study of people choose to use limited resources to satisfy their unlimited wants

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Economics

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2
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Where there isn’t enough of something because humans want more than they can have

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Scarcity

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Consumers willingness to purchase a good or service at a specific price

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Demand

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4
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Producers willingness to make a product or offer a service at a particular price

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Supply

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5
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Tangible (touchable) objects that satisfy economic wants

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Goods

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6
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Activities performed by people to satisfy economic wants

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Services

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7
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Someone who uses resources to make a good or service

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Producer

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8
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Someone who buys or trades a good or service

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Consumer

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9
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Goods brought into one country from another through trade or sell

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Imports

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10
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Good and services traded with or sold to other countries

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Exports

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The knowledge and skills (education) that allows workers to produce goods and services to earn a salary

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Human resources/Capital

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12
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Good such as factories, machines, and tools that works

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Capital goods

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13
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Raw material used to support life and make good

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Natural resources

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14
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The total value of all goods and services produced in a country every year

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Grass domestic product

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15
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To buy more of something in order to benefit from it in the future

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Invest

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16
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The rare mix of qualities needed to create and run businesses

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Entrepreneurship

17
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Persons level of comfort determined by the amount of goods, services, and luxuries available to a person

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Standard of living

18
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When people, businesses, or countries produce a specific goods or services in order to produce more

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Specialization

19
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The way a nation uses its resources to satisfy people’s needs and wants.
Three major economic systems: Traditional Economy
Command Economy
Market Economy

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Economic system

20
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And economy system in which social roles and culture decide what goods and services will be produced, how they will be produced in for whom

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Traditional Economy

21
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And economic system in which the government decides good and services will be produced, how they will be produced, and for whom

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Command Economy

22
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And economic system in which individual choices decide what goods and services will be produced, how they will be produced, and for whom

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Market Economy

23
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And economic system that has mixed features of a traditional, command, and market systems

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Mixed Economy

24
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An economic exchange in which all sides agree to participate because their expect to benefit.

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Voluntary trade

25
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The exchange of goods and services between countries.

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International Trade

26
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Money that is used as a way to trade goods and services.

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Currency

27
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How much one country’s money is worth compared to another country’s.

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Exchange rate

28
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Any low or practice that a government uses to limit trade between countries.

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Trade Barrier

29
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A price charged for goods or services brought into one area from another area.

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Tariff

30
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A limit on the amount of product that may be imported during a giving period of time.

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Quota

31
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When a country refuses to import or export certain goods, often packed by the military force

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Embargo