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Economics   Study of the choices people make to satisy their wants and needs.  
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Economist   A person who studys these economic choices  
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Microeconomics   Is the study of the choices made by economic actors such as households companies and individual markets  
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Macroeconomics   Examines the behavior of entire economics  
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consumers bitch   The people decide to buy bitchy things  
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Producers   The people who make the things that satisfy consumers needs and wants  
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Goods   Physical objetcs that can be purchased  
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Services   Are actions or activites that are performed for a fee  
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Resources   Is anything that people use to make or obtain what they need or want  
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Factor of production   Resources that can be used to produce goods and services  
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Natural Resources   Items provided by nature that can be used to produce goods and to provide services  
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Human resources   Any human effort exerted during production  
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Capital resources   Manufactutred materials used to create products  
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Capital goods   Are buildings, structures, machinery, and tools, used in production process  
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Consumer Goods   The goods and services that some poeple buy  
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Technology   Is the use of technical knowledge and methods to create new products or make existing products more efficientily  
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Entrepenurship   Combination of organnizational abilitys and risk taking involved in starting a new buisness or introducing a new product  
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Entrepenur   Is the person who attempts to start a new buisness or introsuce a new productScx  
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Scarcity   Most basic problem of economics because it enforces people to make decisions about how to use resources effectively  
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Allocate   Distribute, resources in order to satisfy the greatest number of needs and wants  
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Productivity   Is the level of output that results from A given level of input  
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Efficiency   Is the use of the smallest amount of resources to produce the greatest amount of output  
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Division of Labor   A small number of tasks to each worker  
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Specialization   Allows each employee to work faster and to produce a greater number of alarm clocks  
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Trade-off   Economic terms to sacrifice  
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Oppurtunity cost   The value of the next best alternative that is given up to obtain a perfered item  
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Production possiblity ties curve   Shows all the possible combinations of two goods or services that can be produced with in a stated time given to important assumptions  
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Exhcange   Producers gain this information through a process called exchange  
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Barter   Direct trade  
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Money   Any item that is readily accepted by people in return for goods and services  
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Credit   Third form of exhchange  
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Value   Can be expressed as an amount of moeny of price  
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Utility   Value is also determined by the degree to which the product has utility  
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Self-sufficiency   When they can fufill all of their needs without outside assistance  
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Interdependence   Means that events of developments in one reigon of the world or sector of the economy influences events or developments in other reigons or sectors  
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