Grade 7 Economics

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• Economics is the study of how people, businesses, and governments produce, distribute, and consume goods and services.
• Scarcity is the condition where limited resources cannot satisfy unlimited human wants, forcing people to make choices.
• Goods are physical items people can touch and own, like toys or food, while services are actions people do for others, like teaching or cleaning.
• A market economy is an economic system where buyers and sellers freely decide what to produce and buy with little government control.
• A command economy is an economic system where the government decides what goods are made and how they are distributed.
• The law of supply states that when prices rise, producers are willing to make and sell more of a good.
• The law of demand states that when prices rise, consumers buy less of a good because it becomes more expensive.
• Equilibrium is the price point where the amount of a good producers want to sell equals the amount consumers want to buy.
• Money has three main functions: it is a medium of exchange to buy goods, a unit of account to measure value, and a store of value to save for later.
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the total value of all goods and services produced in a country during a specific time period.