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ch. 18
Chapter 18
Term | Definition |
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need | requirements for survival such as food, clothing and shelter |
want | a thing we would like to have such as entertainment, vacations or an item that makes like comfortable and enjoyable |
economics | the study of how individuals and nations make choices about ways to use scarce resources to fulfill their needs and wants |
microeconomics | the economic behavior and decision making by individuals and small businesses |
macroeconomics | economic behavior and decision making by government or whole industries or societies |
economic model | simplified representation of the real world that economists develop to describe how the economy behaves and is expected to preform in the future |
economic system | nations way of producing things its people want and need |
resource | wealth |
scarcity | not having enough resources to produce all of the things we would like to have |
tradeoff | the alternative you face if you decide to do one thing rather than another |
opportunity cost | the cost of the next best alternative use of time and money which choosing to do one thing rather than annother |
marginal cost | the additional or extra opportunity cost associated with an acquire |
marginal benefit | the additional or extra benefit associated with an acquire |
cost-benefit analysis | economic model that compares the marginal cost and marginal benefits of a decision |