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Intro To Economics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Economics | Study of choices |
| Scarcity | Unlimited wants but limited resources |
| Micro economics | Study of economics on a small scale |
| Macro economics | Study of economics on a large scale |
| Price | Amount consumer pays |
| Cost | Amount seller pays to produce good |
| Investment | The money spent by buisness to improve their production |
| Land | Natural resources Ex: Gold, water |
| Labor | Effort a person devotes to a task and skill Ex: construction worker, teachers |
| Capital | Human made resource used to make other goods Ex: Machinery, buildings and tools. |
| Entrepreneurship | Leaders that combine factors of production to create goods and service. Ex: elon musk |
| Surplus | Excess of resource |
| Trade off | The things you give up |
| Opprotunity cost | The value of what you gave up |
| PPC | Production possiblities curve model that shows alternate ways an economy can use its resources |