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assignment of tasks to the workers, factories, regions, or nations that can perform them more efficiently.
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risk-taking individual in search of profits.
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economic system in which private citizens own and use the factors of production in order to generate profits.
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social science dealing with how people satisfy seemingly unlimited and competing wants with the careful use of scarce resources.
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economic and political system in which all factors of production are collectively owned and controlled by the state.
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political and economic system in which the government owns and controls some factors of production
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fundamental economic problem of meeting people’s virtually unlimited wants with scarce resources.
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work or labor performed for someone.
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tools, equipment, and factories used in the production of goods and services.
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meeting place or mechanism that allows buyers and sellers to come together.
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ability or capacity of a good or service to be useful and give satisfaction to someone.
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sum of tangible economic goods that are scarce, useful, and transferable from one person to another.
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natural resources or other “gifts of nature” not created by human effort.
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basic requirement for survival, including food, clothing, and shelter.
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monetary worth of a good or service as determined by the market.
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people with all their efforts, abilities and skills. Correct Answers Labor
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tangible economic product that is useful, relatively scarce, and transferable to others.
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something we would like to have but is not necessary for survival.
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dollar value of all final goods, services, and structures produced within a country’s borders during a one-year period.
