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Chapter 18
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Needs | Requirements for survival, such as food, clothing, and shelter |
| Wants | A thing we would like to have, such as entertainment, vacations, or an item that makes life comfortable and enjoyable |
| Economics | The study of how individuals and nations makes choices about ways to use scarce resources to fulfill their needs and wants |
| Microeconomics | The economic behavior 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 economist develop to describe how the economy behaves and is expected to perform in the future |
| Economic system | Nation's way of producing things it's people want and needs |
| Resource | The money, people, and materials available to accomplish a community's goal : Wealth |
| Scarcity | Not having enough resources to produce all of the things we would like to have |
| Trade-off | 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 when choosing to do one thing rather than another |
| Marginal benefit | The additional or extra opportunity cost associated with an action |
| Cost-benefit analysis | Economic model that compares the marginal cost and marginal benefits of a decision |
| Marginal cost | The additional or extra benefit cost associated with an action |