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NATURAL RESOURCES: The naturally occurring resources that are naturally a part of our natural planet which are directed toward production--including land, water, wildlife, vegetation, air, climate, sunshine, mineral deposits, and soil nutrients. Natural resources provide the "stuff" that's used to produce all of the tangible products in the economy, including both consumer goods used for immediate satisfaction of wants and needs and capital used for further production.
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Lesson Contents
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Unit 1: Economics |
Unit 2: Doing Economics |
Unit 3: The Economy |
Unit 4: Economic Goals |
Unit 5: Economic Policies |
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Economic Basics
Being the very first lesson in this course, this provides an introduction and overview of economics. You'll come across a lot of basic concepts and terms. The full importance of these may not become apparent until later lessons, but they will be important. The five units making up this lesson set the stage for the further study of economics. - The first unit offers up a basic definition and provides two useful lists -- the three questions of allocation and the seven rules of economics.
- The second unit then explores the practice of economics, including positive and normative economics, macroeconomics and microeconomics, and six common logical fallacies.
- In the third unit, we turn our attention to the economy, especially how real world economies contain a mix of markets and governments.
- We then examine the five basic goals of a mixed economy in the fourth unit, include the three macro goals of full employment, stability, and growth; and the two micro goals of efficiency and equity.
- The fifth and final unit in this lesson considers assorted economic policies that governments use to achieve the five economic goals.
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RECOVERY The early phase of a business-cycle expansion that occurs shortly after a contraction has ended. During a recovery, the unemployment rate remains relatively high, but is beginning to fall, and real gross domestic product begins to increase, usually rapidly. However, because the contraction remains fresh in the minds of many, it may not be immediately clear that the trough of the contraction has actually ended.
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BLACK DISMALAPOD [What's This?]
Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time watching infomercials wanting to buy either a flower arrangement for that special day for your mother or a New York Yankees baseball cap. Be on the lookout for slightly overweight pizza delivery guys. Your Complete Scope
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In the early 1900s around 300 automobile companies operated in the United States.
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"An idea is never given to you without you being given the power to make it reality." -- Richard Bach, Author
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APC Average Propensity to Consume
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