economics paper. 1 definitions

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  • consumer
    a person or organisation that directly uses a good or service
  • good
    a tangible product
  • government
    a political authority that decides how a country is run and manages its operation
  • producer
    a person, company or country that makes, grows or supplies goods/services
  • service
    an intangible product
  • production
    the total output of goods and services produced by a firm or industry in a time period
  • factors of production
    the resources in an economy that can be used to make goods and services (CELL)
  • labour
    the factor of production concerned with the workforce of an economy
  • land
    the factor of production concerned with the natural resources of an economy e.g. farmland/mineral resources
  • capital
    the factor of production that relates to the human made aids to production e.g. machinery
  • enterprise
    the factor of production that takes a risk (the entrepreneur) in organising the other 3 factors of production
  • interdependent
    how factors are reliant on one another