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Econ 1
Definitions for first test Keely Spugnardi
Term | Definition |
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Wants | desires that can be satisfied by consuming a good or service |
Needs | things such as food, clothing, & shelter that are necessary for survival |
Scarcity | situation that exists when there are not enough resources to meet human wants |
Economics | study of how individuals & societies satisfy their unlimited wants with limited resources |
Goods | physical objects such as clothing, food, and furniture that can be purchased |
Services | work that one person does for another for payment |
Consumer | person who buys goods or services for personal use |
Producer | person who makes goods or provides services |
Factors of Production | economic resources needed to produce goods & services |
Land | all natural resources on or under the ground that are used to produce goods & services |
Labor | all the human time, effort, & talent used to produce goods and services |
Capital | all resources people make and use to produce and distribute goods and services |
Entrepreneurships | combonation of vision, skill, ingenuity, and willingness to take risks that is needed to create and run a new business |
Incentives | benefit offered to encourage people to act in a certain way |
Utility | benefit or satisfaction gained from using a good or service |
Economize | to make decisions according to what is believed to be the best combonation of costs and benefits |
Trade-Off | alternative someone gives up when making an economic choice |
Opportunity Cost | value of something that is given up by choosing one alternative over another |
Cost-Benefit Analysis | Practice of examing the costs and expected benefits of a choice as an aid to decision making |
Marginal Cost | additional cost of producing or using one or more unit of a good or service |
Marginal Benefit | benefit or satifaction gained from using one or more unit of a good or service |
Economic Model | a simplified representation of economic activites, systems, or problems |
Production Possible Curve | graph used to illustrate the impact of scarcity on an economy |
Efficiency | condition in which economic resources are used to produce the maximum amount of goods and services |
Underutilization | condition in which economic resources are not being used to their full potential, resulting in fewer goods and services |
Law of Incresing Oppourtunity Costs | States that as production switches from one production to another, increasingly more resources are needed to increase the production of the second product, which causes oppurtunity costs to rise |
Statistics | numerical data |
Microeconomics | study of the behavior of indiviual players- such as individuals and families- in an ecomy |
Macroeconmics | study of behavior of ecomony as a whole |
Positive Economics | way of describing & explaining economics as it is |
Normative Economics | way of describing & explaing what economics should be |