Chapter 2: Production Possibilities

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Absolute advantage

________ is the ability to produce something with fewer resources or to produce more with the same resources as another producer.

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Comparative advantage

________ is the ability to produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than another producer.

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Models

________ are used in economics and most other sciences to represent reality.

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Normative economics deals

________ with value judgments and decisions regarding how things should be.

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Positive economics

________ is more objective and provides descriptions of how things are.

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production possibilities model

The ________, is one of the most basic and useful models in economics.

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the three basic economic questions

What to produce How to produce it? For whom to produce?

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