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NEED   A need is immediate e.g. food and shelter, which we need to survive  
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WANT   A want is anything in excess of needs which is not necessary for our survival e.g. a foreign holiday or a new car  
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OPPORTUNITY COST   Opportunity cost is the cost of foregone alternatives (choice)  
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ECONOMICS   a social science which studies the allocation of scarce resources which have alternative uses  
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COMMAND/CENTRALLY PLANNED ECONOMY   where the government makes the decisions on goods and services to be produced e.g. Cuba and North Korea  
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MIX ECONOMY   A mixed economy is one that incorporates elements of both central planning or private enterprise in its economic system  
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MICROECONOMICS   studies how an individual producer and a consumer make decisions and attempt to solve their economic problems  
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MACROECONOMICS   The study of the performance of the national economy and the global economy  
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SCARCITY   The needs and wants of a person exceed the resources available to that person  
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MARKET ECONOMY   an economy in which the decisions of households and firms interacting in markets allocate economic resources. Only really exists in theory, however the USA comes close.  
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GOODS   Physical objects such as clothes or shoes  
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SERVICES   Actions or activities that one person performs for another  
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TRADE-OFF   An alternative choice that we sacrifice when we make a decision  
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TRADITIONAL ECONOMY   economic system that relies on habit, custom, or ritual to decide questions of production and consumption of goods and services  
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DEMAND   the number of units of goods a consumer will buy at various price  
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LAW OF DEMAND   states that an increase in price leads to a decrease in quantity demanded  
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SUPPLY   refers to the quantity of a good that firms are willing to make available at various prices over a particular period of time.  
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LAW OF SUPPLY   At low prices the quantity supplied is low whereas at high prices the quantity supplied will be high  
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CAPITALISM   An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.  
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SOCIALISM   A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.  
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COMMUNISM   opposition to liberal democracy and capitalism, advocating instead for a classless system in which the means of production are owned communally and private property is nonexistent or severely curtailed.  
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