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what is markets

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the exchange of goods and services among buyers and sellers.

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consumer

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a person who buys things to use

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producer

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a person or business who makes and sells things for a profit

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goods and services

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a term used in economic to describe all products sold or traded within an economy

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goods VS services

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a good is a tangible object that consumers buy and have for a certain. amount of time. a service is a nontangible thing that is an experience or something done for you

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profit

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the amount of money earned by a business after all of its expenses have been paid for.

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employers

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a business who employs workers to produce goods and services.

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lease

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a contract that allows a person
to use a property for a period of
time, usually in exchange for rent
money

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labour

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the skills, knowledge and effort
provided by a worker

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wage

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the amount of money that a
worker is paid based on the work
that they provide

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demand

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the amount of a good or service that consumers will buy at a certain price

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supply

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how much a producer will sell at a certain price’

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housing market

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exchange: people spend money to buy or rent a home
income: people can get money from charging rent or by selling their homes for a profit
issue: not everyone can afford a home

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stock market

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exchange: shares in companys are bought and sold
income: people can sell shares for a profit or recieve dividends
issue: its very hard to do this

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labour market

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exhange: people spend money to buy or rent a home

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foreign exchange

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exchange: workers exchange their knowledge and skills for money
income: workers get paid wages/salaries
issue: workers can be treated unfairly, there are laws in australia to protect them

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employee

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a person who works for a business

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landlord

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the owner of a house who
leases it out to a tenant in exchange
for rent

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tenant

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a person who pays rent in
exchange for living in the house
owned by someone else

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wants

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things that we desire but can survive without

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strategy

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a plan for achieving goals

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scarcity

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the problem of people having unlimited wants and needs but limited resources to support those needs and wants

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employee

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a person who works for a business

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market

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the exhange of goods and services among buyers and sellers

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export
selling products to overseas countries
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resources
these are known as factors of production
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consumer
people who buy things to use
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needs
things that we physically cannot survivr without
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employment
having a job that returns an income for the work provided.
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opportunity cost
what we miss out on making a choice. it is the alternative that we forgo when we have to choose between two options
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why do laws exist in the labour market
to protect workers from being treated unfairly
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three biggest employing industrys
health education and defense
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relationship between price and quantity demanded
inverse
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relationship between price and quantity supplied
poisitive relationsip direct relationship
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four key items about a good graph
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rent
the money paid by a person to use a property for a period of time
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interdependence
the way participants in an economy (such as individuals, businesses and governments) rely on each other to provide or trade the goods and services they cannot produced themselves
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law of demand
when prices rise, the quality demanded decreases and when prices fall, the quality demanded increases
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law of supply
the higher the price that a good or service can be sold for, the higher the quantity that suppliers are willing to produce
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resource allocation
allocation is how we distribute scarce resources among producers
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factors of production
economic resources, which are divided into four categories: land, labour, capital and entrepreneurship
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land
natural resources that a business uses, eg minerals. exchanged for rent.
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labour
employees hired by a business eg manual laborers, exhancged for wages
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capital
man made resources usedf by a business ti produce other goods and services eg money, exchanged for interest
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enterprise
refers to the ability of a business to combine. the other 3 factors of production.
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taxes
money that the government collects from the public to pay for public goods and services