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Microecon
Introduction vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Economy | system for coordinating society's productive activities |
| Economics | social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services |
| Market economy | economy in which decisions about production and consumption are made by individual producers and consumers |
| Invisible hand | refers to the way in which the individual pursuit of self-interest can lead to good results for society as a whole |
| Microeconomics | branch of economics that studies how people make decisions and how these decisions interact |
| Market failure | occurs when the individual pursuit of self-interest leads to bad results for society as a whole |
| Recession | downturn in the economy |
| Macroeconomics | branch of economics that is concerned with overall ups and downs in the economy |
| Economic growth | growing ability of the economy to produce goods and services |
| Command economy | economy in which there is a central authority making decisions about production and consumption |