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What are the resources used to make goods and services called? |
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The study of how people seek to satisfy their needs and wants by making choices. |
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People who take risks to combine the factors of production to create a business. |
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Giving up one alternative for another is called a what? |
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Thinking at the margin means deciding about what? |
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Using one more unit of resource. |
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Using resources in such a way as to maximize the production of goods and services. |
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A country's production possibilities with grow if it does what? |
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Increases in resources and technology. |
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What are the three questions that an economy answers? |
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1. What goods and services should be produced? 2. How should these goods be produced? 3. Who consumes the goods and services? |
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In traditional economy, economic questions are answered largely based on what? |
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Competition and self-interest are two important factors in what? |
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The former Soviet Union is an example of a communist country where the government does what? |
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Which countries have the most extreme example of a centrally planned economy? |
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According to the law of supply what happens? |
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Offers more of a good at a higher price |
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The change in output from adding one more worker. |
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cost of producing one more unit of good |
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If sellers expect the prove of a good to ride in the future, they will do what? |
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The most common form of business organization is the what? |
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One way a corporation can raise money is by what? |
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