Thursday, 23 March 2017

ECONOMY VOCABULARY

Economic activity: is what is carried out by humans in order to acquire goods that satisfy consumer needs.
Economic goods: are products and services generated by economic activity.
Products: goods which are obtained directly from nature or which are turned into something.
Services: activities carried out by humans to benefit society.
Factors of production: the resources that are required for the generation of economic goods.
Land: the environmental resource.
Rent: payment for the use of the land.
Labor: mental and physical efforts of people applied to the production of goods and services.
Wages: payment for labor.
Capital: is the money, buildings, and machinery and equipment used to produce goods and services.
Interest: payment for investing capital.
Entrepreneurship: is the risk-taking resource.
Profit motive: possibility of making money.
Economic agents: those elements that have a role in converting the factors of production into goods and services.
Primary sector: activities involved in obtaining resources directly from raw materials, including agriculture, livestock, fishing, forestry and mining.
Secondary sector: activities involved in converting raw materials into manufactured products (industry) or building houses and infrastructure.
Tertiary sector: activities that provide services.
Economic system: the way a country organizes, produces. Distributes and administers its material and human resources and the economic goods that these generate, in order to provide for high level of well-being.
Planned economy: the state controls all the factors of production.
Market economy: companies buy and sell products and services freely.
Price: cost of a product or services.
Natural resources: thing a person or country has that can be used or economic benefit.
Supply: goods and services that are available for sale.
Economic policy: action that government take to organize the economy.
Consumer: person who uses goods or services.
Profit: difference between what it cost to make something or provide service what it is sold for.

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