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Scarce   Not freely available and lacking an infinite source  
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Resource   Anything consumed directly or used to make things that will be ultimately consumed.  
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Opportunity Cost   The foregone alternative of the choice made  
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PPF   Production Possibly Frontier, relates the choices we make in choosing output alternatives  
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Market   Mechanism by which buyers and sellers negotiate an exchange.  
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Constant Opportunity Cost   Likely to occur when people are identical in their skills.  
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Marginal Benefit   Increase in benefit that results from an action  
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Positive Analysis   Seeks to understand the way things are and why  
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Direct Correlation   A higher level of one variable is associated with a higher level of the other variable.  
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Causation   A change in one variable makes another variable change  
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Fallacy of composition   Mistake in logic that says that the total economic impact of something is always and simply equal to the sum of the individual parts  
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Normative Anaylsis   Seeks to understand the way things should be  
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Quantity Demanded   Amount that consumers are willing and able to buy at a particular price during a particular time period  
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Equilibrium Price   Price at which no consumers wish to purchase more, and no producers wish to sell more  
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Law of Demand   The relationship between price and quantity demanded is negative  
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Shortage   Condition where firms don't want to sell as many goods as consumers want to buy  
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Ceteris paribus   Other things equal  
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Substitution Effect   Purchase less of a product than originally wanted when its price is high because a lower-priced product is available.  
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You want to buy Ford, but Honda is having 30% off sale. How does this change buying decision, what economic principal is at work?   Price down for Honda, Demand down for Ford. Substitution Effect  
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You make books and soda. You want to double number of books, but not change soda. How do you solve this?   Technology needs to be improved in order to push the PPF graph to where you want it to be.  
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Nike official sneakers of 2012. What happens to demand? Shortage/Surplus?    
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