Vocabulary - An Economic Way of Thinking

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Across
  1. 2. offering or expressing a choice
  2. 3. the act or process of making choices or decisions with a group of people, especially in business or politics
  3. 6. the condition that results because people have limited resources but unlimited wants
  4. 7. the exchange of one benefit or advantage for another that is thought to be better
  5. 10. The study of how people choose to use their limited resources to satisfy their unlimited wants
  6. 11. a conclusion derived through logic. - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
  7. 12. the branch of economics that applies value judgments to data in order to recommend actions or policies. The goal is to advise how things ought to be done.
  8. 13. the behavior observed when individuals make choices solely based on subjective preferences.
  9. 14. the branch of economics that uses objective analysis to find out how the economy actually works
Down
  1. 1. a way to compare the costs of an action with the benefits of that action; if benefits exceed costs, then the action is worth taking
  2. 4. A system used to manage limited resources for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
  3. 5. something that motivates a person to take a particular course of action
  4. 8. required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsible. - is completely responsible for what they do and must be able to give a satisfactory reason for it
  5. 9. you need to live within your means. And to live within your means, you must spend less than you make.