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Chapter 1
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Satisfying needs and wants
• Need: Things that are required in order to live• Wants: Things that comfort and pleasure to
your life• Good: Things that you can see and touch• Services: Activities that are consumed at the
same time they are produced
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OPPORTUNITY COST
• Economic decision-making-process of choosing which wants, among several options, will be satisfied
• Tradeoff-when you give up something to have something else
• Opportunity cost- the value of the next-best alternative that you did not choose
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The Decision Making Process
• Define the problem• Identify the choices• Evaluate the pros and cons of the choices• Choose one• Act on your choice• Review your decision
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3 Economic Questions
• What to produce• How to produce • For whom to produce
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•Command Economy-resources are owned and controlled by the government
•Market Economy- resources are owned and controlled by the people of the country
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• Traditional economy-goods and services are produced the way it has always been done
•Mixed economy-combines elements of the command and market economies
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• Capitalism-private ownership of resources by inividuals rather than by their government
• Competition-rivalry among businesses to sell their goods and services
• Profit-is the money left from sales after all of the cost of operating business has been paid
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Supply and Demand
• Consumer: A person who buys and uses goods and services• Producers: Individual and
organizations that determine what products and services will be available for sale
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• Demand: Quantity of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to buy
• Supply: quantity of a good or service that business is willing and able to provide
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•Market price: point where supply and demand are equal