Cost of the next-best alternative use of money, time, or resources when one choice is made rather than another
What is Opportunity Cost?
Sum of those economic products that are tangible, scarce, useful, and transferable.
What is Wealth?
Quality of life based on the ownership of the necessities and luxuries that make life easier
What is Standard of Living
What is the motivating force behind a Free Market
What is Self-interest?
People with all their efforts, abilities and skills
What is Labor?
What do we call it when the Government of a county must make a decision between increasing military's spending and subsidizing wheat farmers.
What is Guns or Butter?
Any resources that are made by humans and used to create other goods and services are called?
What is capital?
Suppose there is a family in which all the boys are expected to become farmers when they're adults, just as fathers and grandfathers did. In which kind of economy do they practice?
What is Traditional Economy?
Alternative choices made by consumers in the market
What is Trade-Offs?
Economy in which consumers and privately owned businesses make the majority of the WHAT, HOW, and FOR WHOM decisions
What is Free Enterprise (Market) Economy?
Worth that can be expressed in dollars and cents.
What is Value?
Work that is performed for someone.
What is Services?
Why are goods and services scarce?
What is All resources are scarce?
What would you call it when food is not available because the truck drivers carrying the food are on strike?
What is Shortage?