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  1. Capital Resources:

  2. Enterpriser (entrepreneur):

  3. Entrepreneur:

  4. Factors of Production:

  5. Human Capital:

  6. Innovator:

  7. Inventor:

  8. Labor Resources:

  9. Natural Resources:

  10. Opportunity Cost:

  11. Production Possibility:

  12. Production Possibilities Boundary:

  13. Resources (factors of production):

  14. Scarcity:

  15. Technological Know-How:

  16. Tradeoff:

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Scarcity: The Economic Problem

Capital Resources:

Goods, tools, or skills that are produced for use in further production.

Enterpriser (entrepreneur):

One who seeks the best opportunities for production and takes risks when making such decisions.

Entrepreneur:

See enterpriser.

Factors of Production:

See resources.

Human Capital:

The skills that people use in combination with their labor effort.

Innovator:

One who brings an invention out of the laboratory, makes it practical, and applies it to actual production.

Inventor:

One who discovers or devises a new or improved process or product.

Labor Resources:

All kinds of human work efforts that are or can be directed at production or enterprise.

Natural Resources:

All things provided by nature that can be used in production.

Opportunity Cost:

The true cost of choosing one alternative over another; the best alternative for gone when a choice is made.

Production Possibility:

The limits to the quantities of goods and services that can be produced during any given time period with a given supply of resources including technological knowledge.

Production Possibilities Boundary:

A curve that represents all the alternative maximum combinations that can be produced during a given time period with a given supply of resources including technological knowledge.

Resources (factors of production):

Input; the ingredients necessary for producing goods and services (output).

Scarcity:

A condition that exists when the amount of something actually available and free of charge would not be sufficient to meet some requirement.

Technological Know-How:

The ability to combine resources in producing the goods and services that a society wants.

Tradeoff:

When one good or service must be given up to gain a certain quantity of another good or service.