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Description
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Term
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The value of the next best forgone alternative
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Opportunity Cost
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The degree of responsiveness of demand to a change in price
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Price Elasticity of Demand
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A subjective statement that relies on opinion and carries a value judgement
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Normative Statement
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The degree of responsiveness of demand to a change in income
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Income Elasticity of Demand
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The number of units sold by firms at different prices in a given period
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Supply
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The number of units purchased by consumers at different prices in a given period
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Demand
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What has a coefficient above zero but less than one?
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Relatively Inelastic Demand
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The situation where an individual gains less additional utility from consuming a product the more of it is consumed
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Diminishing Marginal Utility
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The study of the interrelationships between economic variables at an aggregate (economy-wide) level
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Macroeconomics
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A good or service for which there is no marginal (additional) cost of providing it to an additional consumer such as a television broadcast
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Non-Rivalrous
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A decrease in demand coupled with a rise in price
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Contraction in Demand
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When a percentage change in price causes no change in the quantity demanded
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Perfectly Inelastic Demand
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When a country produces or has the potential to produce more goods and services
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Economic Growth
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A theoretical situation in which any attempt to make one person better off would make another worse off
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Perfect Efficiency
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A product that is in competitive demand with another product
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Substitute
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When a change in the price of one good provokes a smaller change in the demand of another
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Relative Cross Inelasticity
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What has a coefficient of infinity?
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Perfectly Elastic Demand
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A product that is both non-excludable and non-rivalrous
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Public Good
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The optimal allocation of scarce resources
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Efficiency
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Something that humans do not have to produce but which they can consume without opportunity cost
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Free Good
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