Economics Flashcards

Chapter 1

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Scarcity

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Condition that occurs because peoples wants and needs are unlimited while the resources needed to produce goods and services to meets these wants and needs are limited

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Unlimited wants and needs

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The human characteristic of never having all wants and needs satisfied

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Economics

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The social science that deals with how society allocates is scarce resources among its unlimited wants and needs

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Allocation

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The process of choosing which needs will be satisfied and how much of our resources we will need to use to satisfy them

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Limited resources

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The condition of there not being enough resources to fulfill all the wants and needs

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opportunity cost

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the value of any alternative that you must give Up when you make a choice

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Opportunity benefit

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What can be gained by making a particular choice

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Microeconomics

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One branch of economics that examines the choices of individuals concerning one product, one firm, or one industry

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Macroeconomics

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One branch of economics that examines the behavior of the whole economy at once

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Basic questions of economics

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What to produce- how to produce- for whom to produce

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