ECON 1050 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Great Moderation, Positive Statement, Economic Model
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Economics: the social science that studies the choices that individuals , businesses, governments and entire societies make as they cope with scarcity and the incentives that influence and reconcile those choices. Scarcity: the inability to get everything we want. Microeconomics: study of the choices that individuals and businesses make, the way these choices interact in markets, and the influence of governments. Macroeconomics: the study of the performance of the national economy and the global economy. Goods and services: the objects people value and produce to satisfy human wants. Goods are physical objects services are tasks performed for people. Factors of production: productive resources used to produce goods and services, such as land, labour, capital, entrepreneurship. Labour- work time ad work effort that eople devote to producing goods and services. It includes the physical and mental efforts of all the people who work on farms, construction sites, factories, shops, offices.