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Chapter 1

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Definition
Economics   A social science dealing with how best to allocate scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants.  
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Microeconomics   Individual decision-making units such as firms.  
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Microeconomics   Broad economic aggregates rather than individuals units.  
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Positive approach   Deals with the way things are.  
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Normative approach   The way things should be.  
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Scarcity   The key economic problem (Everything that exist is limited)  
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Four categories of resources   labor-workers land-natural resources capital-tools and factories entrepreneurship-Those willing to develop new products or techniques.  
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Opportunity cost   Choosing a particular action as the highest valued alternative  
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Human Resources/Capital   Health, education, experience, training, skills and values of people  
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Goods   Tangible objects that satisfy economic wants  
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Services   Activities performed by someone to satisfy economic want  
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Trade-off   Giving up one benefit in order to gain something more desirable  
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Productivity   The amount of output produced per unit of input used.  
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Choice   Decision made or course of action taken when faced with a set of alternatives.  
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Products   Something manufactured or refined for sale.  
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Production   The act or process of manufacturing or refining something.  
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Cost   The effort, loss or sacrifice necessary to achieve or obtain something.  
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Specialization   Producing a lower range of goods and services than they consume.  
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Consumers   People who use goods and services to satisfy personal needs.  
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Producers   People and firms that use resources to make goods and services.  
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Supply   The amount of a good or service that producers are willing and able to offer for sale at each possible price during a given time.  
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Demand   The quantity of a good or service that buyers are willing and able to buy at all possible prices during a period of time.  
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Utility   An abstract measure of the satisfaction consumers derive form consuming goods and services.  
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Benefit   Monetary or non monetary gain recieved because of an action taken or a decision made.  
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Decision Making   Reaching a conclusion after consider alternatives and their results.  
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Incentive   Any reward such as money that motivates people to do something .  
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