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Econ Module 1.1
Module 1 Section 1 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Economics | the study of scarcity and choice |
| Individual Choice | decisions by individuals about what to do, which necessarily involve decisions about what not to do |
| An Economy | An economy is a system for coordinating a society's productive and consumptive activities (making and getting things) |
| Market Economy | the decisions of individual producers and consumers largely determine what, how, and for whom to produce, with *little* government involvement in the decisions |
| Command Economy | industry is publicly owned and a central authority makes production and consumption decisions |
| Incentives | rewards or punishments that motivate particular choices |
| Property Rights | these establish ownership and grant individual the right to trade goods and services with each other |
| Marginal Analysis | the study of the costs and benefits of doing a little bit more of an activity versus a little bit less of one |
| Resource | anything that can be used to produce something else |
| Land | for the purposes of economics, it means all resources that come from nature, such as minerals, timber, and petroleum, etc. |
| Labor | the effort of workers |
| Capital (with an "a") | manufactured goods used to make other goods and services |
| Entrepreneurship | the efforts of entrepreneurs in organizing resources for production, taking risks to create new enterprises, and innovating to develop new products and production processes |
| Scarce Resource | a resource that is not available in sufficient quantities to satisfy all the various ways a society wants to use it |
| Opportunity Cost | the REAL cost of an item. What you must give up in order to get the item |