Intro to Economics
Across
- 1. the development of skills in a specific kind of work
- 4. the products and/or services that an organization produces
- 5. phrase coined by Adam Smith to refer to the self-regulating nature of a free market
- 7. the cost that is the most desirable alternative given up as the result of a decision
- 8. the study of scarcity and choice
- 9. the methods societies use to produce and distribute resources
- 11. an economic system in which the government controls a country' economy
- 13. resources that are raw materials from nature used to produce goods
- 16. people who work to produce goods and services
- 17. a market based economic system with limited government involvement
- 18. the specific economic resources used in producing goods and services
Down
- 2. the frontier or line on a graph that shows maximum possible output
- 3. land, labor, and capital; the three groups of resources that are used to make all goods and services
- 6. an economy that consists of mostly subsistence agriculture
- 10. the limited nature of society's resources
- 12. a person who starts up and takes on the risk of a business
- 14. the human-made objects used to create other goods and services
- 15. an economic system in which resources are primarily owned and controlled by the private sector