Economic Concepts and Consumer Rights

Consumer rights include (a)  

Fundamental economic problem facing all societies resulting from a combination of scarce resources and people’s virtually unlimited needs and wants.

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Cost of the next best alternative use of money, time or resources when one choice is made rather than another

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Item that wears out, is used up, or lasts for fewer than three years when used regularly

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Alternative that must be given up when one choice is made rather than another

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Diagram representing all possible combinations of goods and/or services an economy can produce when all productive resources are fully employed

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Measure of the amount of output produced in a specific time period with a given amount of resources; normally refers to labor, but can apply to all factors of production

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Tool, equipment, or other manufactured good used to produce other goods and services; a factor of production

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Markets in which productive resources are bought and sold

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Natural resources or “gifts of nature” not created by human effort; one of the four factors of production

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