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SCARCE GOOD: A resource with an available quantity less than its desired use. Scarce resources are also called factors of production. Scarce goods are also termed economic goods. Scarce resources are used to produce scarce goods. Like the more general society-wide condition of scarcity, a given resource is scarce because it has a limited availability in combination with a greater (potentially unlimited) productive use. It's both of these that make it scarce. In other words, even though an item is quite limited it will not be a scarce resource if it has few if any uses (think pocket lint and free good).
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Lesson 2: Economic Science | Unit 3: Verification
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Ceteris Paribus Assumption: In order to test an hypothesis we need to keep constant other factors that may affect it. Other things are called ceteris paribus factors. The last step in the process is to evaluate the hypothesis. We have two possibilities-data and hypothesis agree-- data and hypothesis don't agree. The data and hypothesis agree. - Because we can not prove an absolute, this possibility gives us support for the hypothesis, but not absolute proof that it is correct.
- To get a proof, we need to test the hypothesis many times under several different conditions. But even then, we can not be 100%, absolutely certain.
- With growing certainty of the validity of the hypothesis, it becomes a principle and is added to the theory for an expanded theory.
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EFFICIENCY Generating the most possible satisfaction from a given amount of resources. Efficiency means that this satisfaction of wants and needs cannot be increased by producing more of one good and less of another. This is one of the five economic goals and one of two microeconomic goals. The other goals are full employment, stability, economic growth, and equity.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time surfing the Internet hoping to buy either a birthday gift for your father that doesn't look like every other birthday gift for your father or a green fountain pen. Be on the lookout for broken fingernail clippers.
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SWIFT
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