Economics Final Exam Review

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The highest valued alternative given up as a result of making a choice.

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Opportunity Cost

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The physical and mental efforts people use to create goods and services.

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Human Resources

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The buildings, tools, and machines people create and use to produce final goods and services.

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Capital Resources

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Unaltered gifts of nature like soil, minerals, timber, and fresh water.

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Natural Resources

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______ means that an inequality exists between wants and the resources available to satisfy them.

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Scarcity

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The study of the economy as a whole

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Macroeconomics

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The study of individual consumers and businesses

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Microeconomics

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an economic system in which the government holds most of the property rights.

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Command Economy

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An economic system in which people rely on traditions or customs to make what, how, and for whom choices

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Traditional Economy

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Blends voluntary exchange, government command, and tradition and traditional elements of economic choice making.

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Mixed Economy