Any good or service which if used by one individual or firm is not available to others. Most ordinary consumer and capital goods are private goods. They are contrasted with public goods, where one person's use does not decrease the amount available for others: services such as radio and television transmissions are pure public goods. Some goods, like the services of roads, are almost public goods at times of low usage, and almost private goods at peak periods when congestion means that one person's usage reduces the space available for others. Whether such goods are private or public is thus a matter of degree.

• borrowing
• borrowing, consumer
• Borrowing Requirement, Public Sector
• bottleneck
• bottom line
• bound
• boundary, production possibility
• bounded rationality
• Bowley box
• box diagram
• boycott
• BP curve
• Brady Plan
• brain drain
• branch banking
• brand
• brand loyalty
• Brandt Report
• break-even
• break-up value
• Bretton Woods
• broad money
• broker
• brokerage
• bubble