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LIMITED RESOURCES: Finite quantities of labor, capital, land, and entrepreneurship available to an economy for the production of goods and services. This is one half of the fundamental problem of scarcity that has plagued humanity since the beginning of time. The other half of the scarcity problem is unlimited wants and needs.
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Lesson 7: Market Equilibrium | Unit 5: Efficiency
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Efficiency is one of the five basic goals of the economy. It's nice to have, if you can.- Efficiency is getting the most satisfaction of wants and needs from available resources.
- Scarcity is less of a problem when resources are used efficiently.
- Economists like markets because they can achieve efficiency under the right conditions. And because markets are self-correcting, they can achieve this efficiency without intervention.
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BANK PANIC An economy-wide problem in the financial sector and the banking industry that triggers an economy-wide business-cycle contraction or even depression. Bank panics were common throughout the 1800s and early 1900s, during which time they where the primary cause of business-cycle downturns. Bank panics usually involved bank runs that spread from bank to bank throughout the economy.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time surfing the Internet trying to buy either a pair of leather sandals that won't cause blisters or clothing for your kitty cats. Be on the lookout for poorly written technical manuals. Your Complete Scope
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One of the largest markets for gold in the United States is the manufacturing of class rings.
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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." -- Mark Twain
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