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Explain the concept of economics and economic activities
ECONOMIC FOUNDATIONS Explain the concept of economics and economic activities
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Economics The study of how to meet unlimited, competing wants with limited resources
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Economic Activities Consumption Production Exchange Distribution
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The process or activity of using goods and services
Consumption The process or activity of using goods and services
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Production The making of goods and services
Goods and services must be made in order for consumption to occur
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Exchange Paying resource owners for use of their resources Wages
Salaries Profits Interest Rent Prices The process of trading one good/service for another
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Distribution The process or activity by which income is divided among resource owners and producers
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Wants Desires Needs Something necessary; essential
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Noneconomic wants Desires for something that can be obtained without spending money Economic wants Desires for items that can only be obtained by spending money
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Services: Intangible objects that can be sold
Goods: Tangible objects that can be manufactured or produced for resale Services: Intangible objects that can be sold Consumer Industrial
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Consumer goods: Products that are useful to consumers
Consumer services: Acts performed for the consumer for a fee
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Industrial goods: Products that are used by industries in producing goods and services
Industrial services: Acts performed for business for a fee
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Opportunity cost: The benefit that is lost when you decide to use scarce resources for one purpose rather than for another Example: A consumer decides to rent an apartment, rather than to buy a house. The opportunity cost of this decision is the lost benefits of home ownership.
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Trade-off: Giving up all or part of one thing in order to get something else
Example: Managers may be willing to accept the production of fewer quantities of a product in order to get workers to produce higher quality products.
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Economy The system by which a nation decides how to use its resources to produce and distribute goods and services.
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(Factors of Production)
Economic Resources (Factors of Production) Land Labor Capital Entrepreneurship
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Land Natural resources
Everything contained in the earth or found in the sea
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Labor Human Resources All people who work in the economy
Full- and part-time workers Managers Public employees Professional people
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Capital Money needed to start and operate a business
Goods used in the production of other goods
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Entrepreneurship Skills of people willing to take the risk of starting their own business
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Scarcity A condition that exists when there are not enough goods or services available to meet the wants and needs of consumers
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Basic economic questions
What goods and services should be produced? How should the goods and services be produced? For whom should the goods and services be produced?
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