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What is Economics?
The Study of how individuals, businesses, and governments make choices when faced with a limited supply of resources.
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What is Limited?
Under the principle of scarcity, people's and needs are unlimited, while goods and services are ...
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What is Capital?
This is any human made resource that is used to produce other goods and services.
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What is "Guns or Butter"?
Phrased used to reference a common choice faced by governments; the choice between spending money on military or domestic needs.
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What is Prestige Worldwide
Entertainment company, ran by Step Brothers, Dale and Brennan.
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What is a Want?
This is something people desire.
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What is a Shortage?
This occurs, temporarily, when consumers want more of a good or service than producers are willing to make.
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What is Physical Capital?
These are man-made objects, like machines and tools, used to help workers produce goods and services more easily and at less cost.
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What is a Trade-off?
The act of giving up one benefit in order to gain another greater benefit.
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Who is Vera Bradley?
Started her own company, that designs quilted purses.
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What is a Need?
This is something essential to survival
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What is a Entrepreneur?
This person assumes risk, while attempting to combine resources to create new goods and services, in order to make a profit.
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What is Land?
This is a factor of production that is provided by nature.
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What is Opportunity cost?
This is the most desirable alternative that is given up as a result of a decision.
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What is Converse?
This shoe company had it's start in Indiana, but has since moved their manufacturing over seas for cheaper labor.
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What is a Service?
This is an action or activity that one person performs for another.
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What are Factors of Production?
The resources used to make all goods and services.
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What is Human Capital?
These are skills a worker gains, through education and experience, to make themselves more productive. Also called technical knowledge.
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What is a Production Possibilities curve?
A graph that shows alternative ways to use an economy's productive resources.
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What is Herb Simon or Melvin Simon (Deceased)?
This person is the owner of the Indiana Pacers, but made his money in real estate by building a series of malls.
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What are Goods?
These are physical objects that someone produces.
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What are Land, Labor, and Capital
These three items make up the factors of production.
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What are teachers, principals, cafeteria workers, custodians, coachs...
Give an example of Labor as a factor of production, within our school.
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What is a Production Possibilities Frontier
A line on a production possibilities curve, that shows the maximum possible output an economy can produce.
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What is Bill Gates, Ted Turner, Herb Simon, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie...
Name at least 3 famous Entrepreneurs.
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