The Basics Module 1 - Common Sense Economics

Question or Hint Answer or Word
  1. Incentives are the rewards and penalties associated with choices. Incentives
  2. When productive resources are limited and the human desire for goods and services is practically unlimited scarcity
  3. The highest valued alternative good or activity that must be sacrificed as a result of choosing an option Opportunity Cost
  4. Economic theory that states individuals make economic decisions when the value is determined by how much additional utility or benefit an extra unit of a good or service provides Marginalism
  5. Something that is advantageous and the expense to acquire something Benefit and Cost
  6. The study of how individuals, governments, business and other organizations make choices that affect the allocation and distribution of scarce resources. Economics
  7. A selfless concern for the well-being of others altruism

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