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Mankiw, Principals of Economics

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business cycle   fluctuations in economic activity, such as employment and production  
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economics   the study of how society manages its scarce resources  
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efficiency   the property of society getting the most it can from its scarce resources  
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equality   the property of distributing economic prosperity uniformly among the members of society  
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externality   the impact of one person’s actions on the well-being of a bystander  
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incentive   something that induces a person to act  
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inflation   an increase in the overall level of prices in the economy  
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marginal changes   small incremental adjustments to a plan of action  
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market economy   an economy that allocates resources through the decentralized decisions of many firms and households as they interact in markets for goods and services  
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market failure   a situation in which a market left on its own fails to allocate resources efficiently  
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market power   the ability of a single economic actor (or small group of actors) to have a substantial influence on market prices  
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opportunity cost   whatever must be given up to obtain some item  
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productivity   the quantity of goods and services produced from each unit of labor input  
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property rights   the ability of an individual to own and exercise control over scarce resources  
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rational people   people who systematically and purposefully do the best they can to achieve their objectives  
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scarcity   the limited nature of society’s resources  
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