Mason Reid Econ Ch. 1.2 Vocab
Across
- 4. early economists were puzzled by a contradiction between necessities and value.
- 5. an item that is economically useful or satisfies an economic want, such as a book, car, or compact disc player.
- 6. the accumulation of products that are tangible, scarce, useful, and transferable from one person to another.
- 8. a worth that can be expressed in dollars and cents.
- 11. a location or other mechanism that allows buyers and sellers to exchange a certain economic product.
- 13. rely on others and others rely on us, to provide the goods and services that we consume.
- 14. the sum of the skills, abilities, health and motivation of people.
- 17. a measure of the amount of output produced by a given amount of inputs in a specific period of time.
- 18. takes place when work is arranged so that the individual workers do fewer tasks than before.
Down
- 1. market where producers sell their goods and services to customers.
- 2. the markets where productive resources are bought and sold.
- 3. work that is performed for someone.
- 7. good and service that are useful, relatively scarce, and transferable to others.
- 9. intended for final use by individuals.
- 10. occurs when a nation's total output of goods and services increases over time.
- 12. when factors of production perform tasks that they can do relatively more efficiently than others.
- 15. manufactured goods are used to produce other goods and services.
- 16. capacity to be useful and provide satisfaction.