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The branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth
Economics
Scarcity
Resources
Choice
Which is a need?
Coffee
Water
Gatorade
Pop
Entrepreneurship is often considered the fourth factor of production since it is necessary for an entrepreneur to assemble the factors of production.
True
False
The opportunity cost is best defined as:
The next best use alternative use of money, time, or resources when making a choice
The list of alternatives that are available when making a choice
The diagram represents the maximum number of goods that can be sold
A simplified version of a complex concept or behaviour
A person who provides goods or services
Consumer
Want
Need
Producer
Why do we study economics?
Because the state requires that we do so and we just love learning about the economy
To become independently wealthy
Because we want to graduate
Although all these answers are technically correct, the most correct answer is: to learn how to make wise decisions to satisfy unlimited wants using limited resources.
_______ is the fundamental, universal, and perpetual economic problem that no one is immune to.
Price floors/ price ceilings
Shortage
Scarcity
The study of microeconomics
Opportunity Cost (OC) can be described as
The number 2 alternative in your list of choices
The next best choice and one you didn’t choose
Your number 1 tradeoff when making a choice
Your most desirable tradeoff
All of these answers are examples of Opportunity cost (OC)
The 4 factors of production (FOP) are:
Rent for land, wages or labor, profit for capital, interest or entrepreneurship
Land, labour, capital, entrepreneurship
Land, Labour, Physical capital, financial capital
Land, labor, resources, profits
The difference between scarcity and shortage is:
Scarcity is a natural and re-occurring condition; shortage is a man-made condition
Occurring condition; shortage is a man-made condition, shortage doesn’t impact everyone, whereas shortage does impact all people.
The shortage is a natural and re-occurring condition; scarcity is a man-made condition
The shortage is a fundamental, universal economic problem.
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