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What is the economic problem

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Human wants exceed resources available to satisfy them.

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Economics

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The science of scarcity since it concerns the inequality of wants and resources.

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Utility

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Is the economists term for satisfaction or happiness.

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Disutility

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Means unhappiness or dissatisfaction

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Good

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Something that brings utility

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Economic good

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Is so scarce someone will pay for it.

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Bad

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Brings disutility

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Economic bad

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Is so plentiful we are willing to pay to remove it.

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4 resources or factors of production

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Natural resources
Capital
Labor
Entrepreneur ship

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Natural resources

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Or land are the gifts of nature

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Capital

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Human made goods used to make other goods

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Labor

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Human work.

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Entrepreneurship

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Process f bringing together the other factors to produce goods.

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What is the goal of business

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To maximize profits

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What is the goal of a person

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To maximize their utility

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Opportunity cost

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Is what we give when we make a choice.
It is explicit cost plus implicit cost, where explicit costs are paid in money and implicit costs are non money factors such as time.

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Globalization

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Is the partial integration of the economies of different countries.

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What do choices require us to consider

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Both opportunity costs and benefits.

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What do the best choices have

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Highest benefits relative to opportunity costs.

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What does science rely on

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Scientific method which starts with observation of the world , which are explained by hypothesis.
Hypothesis must be tested before conclusion can be drawn.

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What scientists believe about theory

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Theory can be disproved, but never completely proven.

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Ceteris paribus is a phrase meaning

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Everything else held constant.

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In economics, when we change the value of one variable, we must

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Hold all variables constant to isolate the effect of the change.

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Why economists cannot generally do science through experiments

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As they must use mathematical and statistical models to explain.

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Model

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Is a simplification of a part of the world.

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Microeconomics

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Considers the individual person, single business or government

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Macro economics

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Is concerned about the entire economy, total income and overall employment.

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Scarcity

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-means that resources are always scarce relative to wants.

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Implicit cost

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-non money costs.

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Explicit costs

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-money related

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Positive theories

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-that is not to be driven by our personal beliefs, but by data , analysis and observations .
Judgment free
Starts with a question

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Normative theories

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-contain value judgment
Starts with an assumption
In here the hypothesis is not testable in a scientific way.