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Chapter 1
Vocab 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Needs | things that are required to live |
| Wants | things that add pleasure and comfort to your life |
| Goods | things you can see and touch, products you can purchase to meet wants and needs |
| Services | activities that are consumed at the same time they are produced |
| Factors of production | economic resources, including nature, human and capital |
| Economic Resources | The means through which goods and services are produced |
| Tradeoff | when you give something up to have something else |
| Opportunity cost | value of next best opportunity that you did not choose |
| Economic system | nation’s plan for answering the three economic questions |
| Command economy | economy in which resources are owned and controlled by the government |
| Market economy | an economy in which resources are owned and controlled by the people of the country |
| Traditional economy | economy in which goods and services are produced the way that they have always been |