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What?
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Social Science
- studies
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human behaviour
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aims
- achive
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scarce resources
- alternate uses
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Factors of production
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Definition
- Resources which we use to produce wealth
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What?
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land
- Provided by nature for the production
- return to land is rent
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labour
- human effort in the production
- return to labour is wages
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capital
- anything made my man which is then used in the production
- return to capital is interest
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enterprise
- organises the other factors and bears the risk involvede in production
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return to enterprise is profit
- positive
- negitive
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Opportunity cost
- that which is sacraficed in the making of a particular choice
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Externalities
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the side effect of an action
- positive
- negative
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Wealth and Income
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Wealth
- stock of value
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Income
- flow of value
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Aims
- Achieve the efficient use of scarce resources
- achieve an equitable distribution of wealth
- create stability in an economy
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types
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Microeconomics
- Individual units
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Macroeconomics
- entire economy