Key terms for Chapter 2: Choice in a World of Scarcity
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show | The ability to produce more of a good or service than another country.
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show | The ability to produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than another country.
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show | Promotes public interest through a market system where the primary motivation is self-interest.
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Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility | show 🗑
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Law of Diminishing Returns | show 🗑
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show | The more of a good that is produced, the greater the opportunity cost of producing the next unit of that good is.
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show | Making decisions based upon weighing the marginal benefits and costs of that action.
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Marginal Cost (MC) | show 🗑
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show | The additional benefit received from the consumption of the next unit of a good or service.
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Normative Statement | show 🗑
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Opportunity Cost | show 🗑
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show | A statement containing something that can be proved.
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show | A graphical representation of opportunity cost.
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Productive Efficiency | show 🗑
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Allocative Efficiency | show 🗑
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show | Costs that were made in the past and cannot be recovered.
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show | When something is given up in order to get another #ThankYouScarcity
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Utility | show 🗑
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