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Week !4 Economics
Term | Definition |
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scarcity | We have limited resources but unlimited wants ex: land, water, time |
Need | something you need to survive ex: food, shelter, water, air, clothes please |
Want | something you desire to have but don't need to live ex: a new bathroom, new counter tops, trip to New Zealand |
opportunity cost | the best alternative you miss out on when you make choice (ex: if you work you miss out on friends) |
trade off | get something but have to give up something |
Demand | To desire something and be able to pay for it. |
import | to bring goods into a country |
export | to send goods out of a country |
self-interest | an individual's own personal gain |
Income | Money coming in for a person or into a business. |
Supply | Amount of goods available. |
Demand | How many people want the goods and what they are willing to pay for them. |
Consequence | The consequences of something are the results or effects of it. |
economic | Economic means concerned with the organization of the money, industry, and trade of a country, region, or society. |
Opportunity Cost | Making a choice, the cost of what you gave up. |
Personal economic choice | How economic choices affect you personally. |
Collective economic choice | Economic choices affect a group or a society. |
Values | Ways that you believe |
Priorities | Things that are most important to you |