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JA Chp. 1-5

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Adam Smith   show
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Barter   show
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show The gains that result when a choice is made.  
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Buying power   show
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show The buildings, tools, and machines people create and use to produce final goods and services.  
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show Latin for “all else being equal”; a fundamental assumption in many economic models  
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Command economy   show
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show Products that often are used together.  
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Consumption   show
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Costs   show
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Demand   show
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show The point reached when an additional unit of a product consumed is less satisfying than the one before it.  
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show A negative or withdrawn reward.  
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Distribution   show
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show A condition of economic fairness and impartiality.  
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show A condition in which individuals and businesses have freedom of choice in employment, buying, selling, use of time, and other economically related decisions.  
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Economic growth   show
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Economic security   show
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Economics   show
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Entrepreneurship   show
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Equilibrium   show
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Factors of production   show
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show The condition that allows people to freely make choices in their economic roles.  
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show A condition in which almost all people in the labor force are able to find work.  
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show A positive reward that results from making a choice or behaving in a certain way.  
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show A good for which quantity demanded falls as income increases.  
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Labor   show
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show Natural resources that are unaltered gifts of nature, such as soil, minerals, timber, and fresh water.  
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Law of demand   show
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Law of supply   show
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Macroeconomics   show
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show The extra or additional costs or benefits of a decision.  
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show The additional cost of increasing one unit of production.  
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Market   show
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show Rivalry among businesses for resources and customers.  
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show The total of all individual demands in a given market at a particular time.  
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Market economy   show
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show The total of all individual suppliers’ products in a market at a particular time.  
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Market-clearing price   show
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Microeconomics   show
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show An economic system that blends voluntary exchange, government command, and traditional elements of economic choice-making.  
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show Anything that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services.  
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Normal good   show
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Opportunity cost   show
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Price ceiling   show
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show The inclination of people to buy less of something at higher prices than they would buy at lower prices.  
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Price elasticity of demand   show
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show A price set above equilibrium by the government  
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Price stability   show
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show An arrangement that uses monetary prices as messages to facilitate exchanges between buyers and sellers.  
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Private property   show
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show A process that combines economic resources so the result is a good or service that is available for sale.  
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Profit   show
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Public property   show
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Rationing   show
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show An inequality that exists between wants and the resources available to satisfy them.  
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show The difference between the amount supplied and the amount demanded when the asking price is less than a market-clearing price.  
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show A process in which businesses and people focus on producing one or a few parts of an entire product.  
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show A good or service that can replace another good or service.  
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show Quantities of a good or service that producers are willing and able to sell at different prices at a particular time.  
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show The difference between the amount supplied and the amount demanded when the asking price is greater than a market-clearing price.  
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show Exchanging something for something else.  
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Traditional economy   show
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Utility   show
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