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HYPOTHESIS: A reasonable proposition about the workings of the world that's inspired or implied by a theory and which may or may not be true. An hypothesis is essentially a prediction made by a theory that can be compared with observations in the real world. Hypotheses usually take the form: "If A, the also B." The essence of the scientific method is to test, or verify, hypotheses against real world data. If supported by data over and over again, hypotheses become principles.

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Lesson 7: Market Equilibrium | Unit 5: Efficiency Page: 17 of 22

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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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UNLIMITED WANTS AND NEEDS

A basic condition of human existence which means that people are never totally satisfied with the quantity and variety of goods and services the consume. It means that people never get enough, that there's always something else that they would want or need. Unlimited wants and needs are 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 limited resources.

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