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CAUSE AND EFFECT: The notion that every event in the universe is the direct result of a preceding event. The purpose of the scientific method is to identify these cause-and-effect relationships. This pursuit is based on a simple point of view: everything happens for a reason, something causes an event to happen. For every action there is a consequence. And for every consequence there is a cause.
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Lesson 3: Scarcity | Unit 5: THE Problem
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- Why scarcity is considered to be THE economic problem.
- Why economists say that there are no free lunches.
- The pervasive problem of scarcity faced by all societies past and present.
- How we might solve the scarcity problem through limited wants and needs or unlimited resources and why this is unlikely to happen.
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EMPIRICAL Based on or relating to the collection or analysis of real world data. The term empirical is commonly used as a modifier to provide contrast with theoretical. Whereas theoretical refers to abstract representations, empirical indicates actual real world observations.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time flipping through the yellow pages trying to buy either a velvet painting of Elvis Presley or a wall poster commemorating yesterday. Be on the lookout for the last item on a shelf. Your Complete Scope
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Three-forths of the gold mined each year is used to manufacture jewelry.
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"If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it. " -- Francis Charles Chichester, yachtsman, aviator
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