Chapter 1 Flashcards

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Wants

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Things that addcomfort and pleasure to your life

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Need

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Something that is required in order to live

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Good

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Things that you can see and touch

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Services

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Activities provided for the satisfaction of others that are consumed at the same time they are produced

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Economic resources

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Things that are available to be used to produce goods and services

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Human resources

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People who produce goods and services

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Capital resources

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Products and money used in the production of goods and resources

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scarcity

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Not having enough resources to satisfy satisfy every need

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Economic decision-making

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It’s the process of choosing which needs and wants will be satisfied

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Opportunity cost

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The value of the next best best attentive that you were not able to choose

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Economic system

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Message a country uses to answer the three economic questions

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Command economy

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Resources owned and controlled by the government

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Market economy

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Resources are owned and controlled by the people of the country

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Traditional economy

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Goods and services are produced the way it has always been done

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Mixed economy

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Bynes elements of the command and market economy else

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Capitalism

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Private ownership of economic resources by individuals rather than by the government

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Consumer

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Person who buys and uses goods and services

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Producers

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Individual and organizations that determine what products and services will be available for sale

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Demand

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Quantity of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to buy

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Market price

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Point where supply and demand are equal