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Micro stack 1
Scarcity, Economic Questions, & Factors
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Opportunity Cost | what you have to give up to buy what you want in terms of other goods or services. |
| TradeOff | a compromise where you typically give up something in return for something else, |
| Incentive | the factors that motivate individuals, businesses, or governments to take certain economic actions |
| Scarcity | the idea that resources are limited, and that we need to make choices about how to allocate them. |
| Capital | human generated resources such as buildings, equipment, and money |
| Entrepreneurship | having ideas and taking risks to create a business |
| Natural resources | the things that would still exist even if humans had never walked the Earth |
| Labor | the work that goes into creating a product or service |