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WorksheetsEconomics - Chapter 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Our inability to satisfy all our wants is called ___________.
profit
scarcity
surplus
wages
Because we face scarcity, we must make _____________.
studies
money
profit
choices
A(n) __________________ is a reward that encourages an action or a penalty that discourages an action.
fine
FOPs
incentive
human capital
The work time and work effort that people devote to producing goods and services is __________.
labor
land
capital
rent
The tools, instruments, machines, buildings, and other constructions that businesses use to produce goods and services are _____________.
land
capital
entrepreneurship
labor
The human resource that organizes land, labor, and capital is _________________.
land
labor
capital
entrepreneurship
Land earns ___________.
interest
rent
wages
profit
Labor earns ___________.
wages
profit
interest
capital
Capital earns _____________.
interest
wages
rent
salaries
Entrepreneurship earns ___________.
interest
profit
wages
rent
You make choices that are in your ___________—choices that you think are best for you.
social-interest
studies
efficiency
self-interest
Choices that are best for society as a whole are said to be in the __________
social-interest
supply
demand
self-interest
Social interest has two dimensions: ______________ and __________.
stability; self-controlling
Efficiency; equity
risk; equity
equity; decision-making
_________ is achieved when the available resources are used to produce goods and services at the lowest possible price and in quantities that give the greatest possible benefit.
equity
information revolution
multinational firms
efficiency
____________ is fairness, but economists have a variety of views about what is fair.
efficiency
profit
risk
equity
____________ means the expansion of international trade, borrowing and lending, and investment.
information revolution
trade-off
globalization
consumers
Globalization is in the self-interest of ____________ who buy low-cost imported goods and services.
countries
consumers
business owners
economists
A choice is a ____________.
switch off
turn off
trade off
____ off
__________ is what you gain from something.
cost
benefit
fee
preference
The___________ __________ of something is the highest-valued alternative that must be given up to get it.
opportunity cost
marginal benefit
Incremental changes
Marginal cost
