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JA Chp. 1-5

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Adam Smith   show
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Barter   show
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show The gains that result when a choice is made.  
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show The quantity of goods and services a person can buy with a given amount of money.  
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show The buildings, tools, and machines people create and use to produce final goods and services.  
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ceteris paribus   show
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Command economy   show
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Complementary goods   show
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Consumption   show
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Costs   show
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Demand   show
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Diminishing marginal utility   show
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show A negative or withdrawn reward.  
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Distribution   show
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Economic equity   show
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Economic freedom   show
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Economic growth   show
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Economic security   show
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Economics   show
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Entrepreneurship   show
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Equilibrium   show
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show The land, labor, and capital resources used to produce goods and services.  
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Free enterprise   show
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Full employment   show
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show A positive reward that results from making a choice or behaving in a certain way.  
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show A good for which quantity demanded falls as income increases.  
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show The physical and mental efforts people use to create goods and services.  
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show Natural resources that are unaltered gifts of nature, such as soil, minerals, timber, and fresh water.  
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Law of demand   show
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Law of supply   show
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show The study of the economy as a whole.  
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show The extra or additional costs or benefits of a decision.  
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show The additional cost of increasing one unit of production.  
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show An arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to make exchanges.  
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show Rivalry among businesses for resources and customers.  
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show The total of all individual demands in a given market at a particular time.  
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Market economy   show
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show The total of all individual suppliers’ products in a market at a particular time.  
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show The price at which the amount supplied is equal to the amount demanded. Equilibrium  
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show The study of individual consumers and businesses.  
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show An economic system that blends voluntary exchange, government command, and traditional elements of economic choice-making.  
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show Anything that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services.  
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show A good for which the consumer’s demand increases as income increases.  
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show The highest valued alternative given up as a result of making a choice.  
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Price ceiling   show
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Price effect   show
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Price elasticity of demand   show
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show A price set above equilibrium by the government  
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Price stability   show
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show An arrangement that uses monetary prices as messages to facilitate exchanges between buyers and sellers.  
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show Resources and products owned by individuals or businesses.  
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show A process that combines economic resources so the result is a good or service that is available for sale.  
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show A positive difference between total sales and total costs.  
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Public property   show
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Rationing   show
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Scarcity   show
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Shortage   show
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show A process in which businesses and people focus on producing one or a few parts of an entire product.  
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Substitute   show
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Supply   show
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show The difference between the amount supplied and the amount demanded when the asking price is greater than a market-clearing price.  
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Trade   show
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show An economic system in which people rely on traditions or customs to make what, how, and for whom choices.  
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show The usefulness or satisfaction that consumers get from consuming goods and services.  
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