What is Economics?

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Economics

Is a social science that studies how society manages its scarce resources.

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Resources

Anything that can be used to produce something else.

  • Classic economic resources: land, capital, human capital

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Scarce

When it is desirable but limited in quantity.

  • A resource is scarce when there is not enough of the resource

available to satisfy all the various ways a society wants to use it.

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Economists examine how people make choices

  • How much they work, what they buy, how much they save, how

    they invest their savings

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