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Economic Definitions
Capital - human-made resources (buildings, machinery, and equipment) used to produce goods and services - kapitál

Cost - the amount of money paid or needed for buying, doing or producing something - náklady

Economic good - a good or service that is both useful and scarce and therefore has a price - ekonomický statek

Economics - the study of how people use their limited resources to satisfy unlimited wants - ekonomie

Economy - an organized system of the production, distribution and consumption of wealth - ekonomika, hodpodářství

Enterprise
1. the quality in a businessman to organize, innovate, bear risks and make nonroutine decisions - podnikavost, podnikatelství
2. an industrial or commercial organization - podnik
3. an economic system which allows a degree of freedom to private businessmen - podnikání

Entrepreneurship - see Enterprise 1

Factors of production - resources, or inputs, necessary to produce goods and services - výrobní factor

Free good - a commodity that has no price because it is not scarce and does not require the use of scarce factors of production to create them, e.g. fresh air, sunshine 9in certain parts of the world) - volný statek

Inflation - a continual rise in the average level of prices - inflace
Input
- the factors of production that are put into a business to produce its output - vstup

Labour
1. work, esp. human work needing the use of strength of body or skill and effort of mind - práce
2. the whole class of persons who work for their living - pracovní síla
3. one of the main factors of production, the human energy and mental skill and judgement applied in producing economic goods - práce

Land - one of the factors of production, also called “natural resources” being the gifts of nature in the form of useful materials of all kinds in or on the earth, including surface space, soil, rocks, minerals, water, winds and weather - půda,

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