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Scarcity
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No matter how wealthy a society is, everything is limited
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trade-offs
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When something is gained, something else must be lost
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Rationing
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Comparing the benefits of every action with it's opportunity cost
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Opportunity cost
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Exactly what you lose from a trade-off
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Market
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All of the buyers and sellers of a particular good or service
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Law of Demand
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If the price is low, demand is high, if the price is high, demand is low
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Normal Goods
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A good in which when income is high, demand is high, but when income is low, demand is low
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Inferior goods
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A good which the quantity demand falls as income rises
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Substitutes
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When a decline in the price of one good causes a quantity reduction in another
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Expectations
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when something is coming soon the buyers will be expecting it
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Inputs
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Things that suppliers have to purchase to supply a product
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Equilibrium
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The point at which the market will settle, when supply and demand are level
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Microeconomics
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The study of economics for a particular market or individual behavior
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Macroeconomics
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The overall performance of a national economy
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Law of Supply
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The higher the price, the greater quantity the producer will want to produce
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Competitive market
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A large number of producers compete to satisfy the wants and needs of a large number of consumers
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Elasticity
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How much a quantity demand changes in relation to a change in price
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Comparative Advantage
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The ability of an individual or group to carry out a particular economic activity (such as making a specific product) more efficiently than another activity.
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Monopoly
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When there is only one supplier for a particular market
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Oligopoly
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A market with very few sellers
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Entrepreneurs
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Individuals who take the risk of attempting to create new products or services, establish new markets, or develop new methods of production
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Market failure
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When competitive markets fail to produce socially desirable outcomes
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Demand
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the quantity of a good or service that buyers are willing and able to buy at all possible prices during a period of time
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Money
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anything widely accepted as a payment for final good or services
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Unlimited liability
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Ones personal assets can be sized to pay businesses debt
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Double Taxation
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happens to a corporation when the company is on its profits and then the shareholders are taxed again on the dividers they earn from the company