Chapter 1 vocabulary

Chapter 1

1(1)
 Economics

Need vs. Want-

Goods vs. Services

Scarcity vs. Shortage

Factors of production-  land, labor, capital

Physical vs. Human Capital

Entrepreneur-


1(2)
trade off

guns or butter

opportunity cost (best opportunity lost)

thinking at the margin (marginal analysis)


1(3)
production possibilities curve

production possibilities frontier

efficiency

underutilization

cost

law of increasing costs