requirement for survival, such as food, clothing, and shelter
a thing we would like to have, such as entertainment, vacation, or an item, that makes life comfortable and enjoyable
the study of how individuals and nations make choices about ways to use scarce resources to fulfill their needs and wants
the economic behavior and decision-making by individuals and small businesses
economic behavior and decision-making by government or whole industries or societies
simplified representation of the real world that economists develop to describe how the economy behaves and is expected to perform in the future
nations way of producing things its people want and need
the money, people, and materials available to accomplish a communitys goals
not having enough resources to produce all of the things we would like to have
the alternative you face if you decide to do one thing rather than another
the cost of the next best use of time and money when choosing to do one thing or another
the additional or extra opportunity cost associated with an action
the additional or extra benefit associated with an action
economic model that compares the marginal costs and marginal benefits of a decision
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