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16 Cards in this Set
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Scarcity
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The limited nature of society's resources
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Economics
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The study of how society manages its scarce resources
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Efficiency
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The property of society getting the most it can from its scarce resources (maximum benefit from resources)
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Equality
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The property of distributing economic prosperity uniformly among the members of society
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Opportunity cost
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Whatever must be given up in order to obtain some item
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Rational people
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People who systematically and purposefully do the best they can to achieve their objectives
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Marginal changes
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Small, incremental changes to a plan of action
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Incentive
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Something that induces a person to act
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Market economy
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An economy that allocates resources through the decentralized decisions of many firms and households as they interact in markets for goods and services
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Property rights
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The ability of an individual to own and exercise control over scarce resources
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Market failure
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A situation in which a market left on its own fails to allocate resources efficiently
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Externality
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The impact of one person's actions on the well being of a bystander
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Market power
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The ability of a single economic actor (or small group of actors) to have substantial influence on market prices
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Productivity
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The quantity of goods and services produced from each unit of labor input
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Inflation
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An increase in the overall levels of prices in the economy
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Business cycle
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Fluctuations in economic activity, such as employment and production
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