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WCHS Economic chapter 1

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Economics   the social science that studies how people, acting individually and in groups, decide to use scarce resources to satisfy their wants  
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Production   is a process that combines economic resources so the result is a good or service that is available for sale  
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distribution   the process of getting a product or service to consumers, before the human want can be satified  
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consumption   using a product or service  
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Natural resources   unaltered gifts of nature, such as soil, minerals, timber, and fresh water, land  
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Human resources   labor, are physical and mental efforts people use to create goods and services  
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Capital resources   buildings, tools, and machines people create and use to produce final goods and services.  
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factors of production   What economist call land, labor and capital resources  
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Entrepreneurship   the imagination, innovative thinking, and management skills needed to start and operate a buisness  
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scarcity   means that an inequality exists between wants and the resources available to satisfy them, scarcity =wants>available resources  
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opportunity cost   the highest valued alternative given up as a result of making a choice  
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incentives   positive rewards for making some kind of choice or behaving in a certain way  
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disincentives   often related to such things as fines or punishment  
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trade   exchanging something for something else  
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benefits   The gains that result when a choice is made  
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cost   the losses that result when a choice is made  
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marginal   simply means the extra or additional costs or benefits of a decision  
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profit   a positive difference between total sales and total cost, meaning that total sales must be greater than total cost  
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market economy   an economy that relies on voluntary trade as the primary means of organizing and coordinating production  
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market   an arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to make exchanges.  
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macroeconomics   the study of the economy as a whole  
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microeconomics   the study of individual consumers and business  
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