Gee Flashcards
Give up part of one thing for part of another
Limited tradeoffs
Combinations of goods and services that are chosen
Profuction possibilities
Choice to spend more on social programs or on defense
Guns v butter
Welfare, health care, education
Social programs
Military
Defense
Machines, buildings, cash
Capital resources
Factory worker
Human resource
Earth, space, ocean
Land
Trees, animals, minerals
Natural resources
Business owners, business managers
Entrepeneurship
Computers, robotics
Technology
Give up one thing to get something else
Trade off
Looks to the past for the answers. Often based on customs of the religious belief
Traditional economy
Factors of production completely controlled by the government
Command economy
Dollar value of the trade off we make
Opportunity cost