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Vocabulary Chap 1

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Scarcity   limited resources and unlimited wants  
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Economics   the study of how people try to meet unlimited needs and wants with limited resources  
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Need   basic requirement for survival  
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Want   a desired item or service not required for survival  
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Factors of Production   resources needed to produce goods and services: Land, Labor, Capital, and Entrepreneurs  
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Land   natural resources ex: deserts, fertile fields, forests, minerals, livestock, sunshine, climates, etc.  
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Capital or Capital Goods   tools, equipment, machinery, and factories used in the production of goods and services  
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Financial Capital   money used to buy the tools and equipment used in production  
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Labor   people with all their effort, skills, and abilities *does not include entrepreneurs, which are in a different category  
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Entrepreneur   risk-taker in search of profit who does something new with existing resources  
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Production   process of creating goods and services  
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Gross Domestic Product or GDP   dollar value of all finished goods, services, and structures produced within a country's borders in a 12-month period *Formula: C+Ig+G+Xn  
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Economic Products   goods and services that are useful, relatively scare, and transferable to others  
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Good   item that is useful and satisfies a need or a want  
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Consumer Good   intended for final use by individuals  
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Capital Good   manufactured goods are used to produce other goods and services  
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Service   work that is performed for someone  
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Paradox of Value   situation where some needs have little monetary (money) value, but some wants have much higher monetary (money) value ex: water and diamonds  
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Utility   capacity to be useful and provide satisfaction  
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Wealth   accumulation of goods  
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Market   mechanism that allows buyers and sellers to exchange a certain economic product  
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Factor Markets   markets where resources used in production (equipment, ect) are bought and sold  
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Product Markets   markets where producers sell their goods and services to consumers  
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Economic Growth   a nation's total output of goods and services increases over time  
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Productivity   measure of the amount of output produced by a given amount of inputs in a specific period of time  
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Division of Labor   work is arranged so that individual workers do fewer tasks  
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Specialization   people or machines perform tasks that they can do relatively more efficiently than others  
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Human Capital   the sum of skills, abilities, health, and motivation of people  
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Economic Interdependence   two or more groups relying on each other to provide the goods and services for the economy  
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Trade-Offs   alternative choices  
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Opportunity Cost   the cost of the next best alternative when one choice is made over another ex: money, time, resources, ect.  
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Production Possibility Frontier   a diagram representing various combinations of goods and/or services an economy can produce when all productive resources are fully employed  
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Cost-Benefit Analysis   way of thinking that compares the costs of an action to the benefits received  
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Free Enterprise Economy   economy in which the individuals and business owners answer the majority of the 'what', 'how', and 'for whom' questions rather than the government  
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Standard of Living   quality of life based on the possession of the necessities and luxuries that make life easier  
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