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Microecon
Chapter 1 vocab
Term | Definition |
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Interaction (of choices) | how my choices affect your choices; a feature of most economic situations |
Trade | to provide goods and services to others and receive goods and services in return |
Gains from trade | people can get more of what they want through trade than they could if they tried to be self-sufficient |
Specialization | each person specializes in the task that he or she is good at performing |
Equilibrium | economic situation in which no individual would be better off doing something different |
Efficient | an economy is this if it takes all opportunities to make some people better off without making other people worse off |
Equity | everyone gets his or her fair share |