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chapter 18 vocabular
Civics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| requirements for survival, such as food, clothing, and shelter | Need |
| a thing we would like to have, such as entertainment, vacations, or an item that makes life comfortable and enjoyable | Want |
| the study of how individuals and nations make choices about ways to use scarce resources to fulfill their needs and wants | Economics |
| the economic behavior and decision-making by individuals and small businesses | Microeconomics |
| economic behavior and decision-making by government or whole industries or societies | Macroeconomics |
| simplified representation of the real world that economists develop to describe how the economy behaves and is expected to perform in the future | Economic Model |
| nation's way of producing things its people want and need | Economic System |
| the money, people, and materials available to accomplish a community's goals | Resource |
| not having enough resources to produce all of the things we would like to have | Scarcity |
| the alternative you face if you decide to do one thing rather than another | Trade-Off |
| the cost of the next best alternative use of time and money when choosing to do one thing rather than another | Opportunity Cost |
| the additional or extra opportunity cost associated with an action | Marginal Cost |
| the additional or extra benefit associated with an action | Marginal Benefit |
| economic model that compares the marginal benefits of a decision | Cost-Benefit Analysis |