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Chapter 18
Civics and Economics: Chapter Eighteen Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Need | requirements for survival, such as food, clothing, and shelter |
Want | a thing we would like to have, such as entertainment, vacations, or an item that makes life comfortable and enjoyable |
Economics | the study of how individuals and nations make choices about ways to use scarce resources to fulfill their needs and wants |
Microeconomics | the economic behavior and decision making by individuals and small businesses |
Macroeconomics | economic behavior and decision making by government or whole industries or societies |
Economic Model | simplified representation of the real world that economics develop to describe how the economy |
Economic System | nation’s way of producing things it's people want and need |
Resource | wealth |
Scarcity | not having enough resources to produce all of the things we would like to have |
Trade Off | the alternative you face if you decide to do one thing rather than another |
Opportunity Cost | the cost of the next best alternative use of time and money when choosing to do one thing rather than the other |
Marginal Cost | the additional or extra opportunity cost associated with an action |
Marginal Benefit | the additional or extra benefit associated with an action |
Cost-Benefit Analysis | economic model that compares the marginal costs and marginal benefits of a decision |