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    Economics is defined as the study of how individuals and societies make choices about ways to use scarce resources. Each chapter contains short sections that are self-contained learning units of 3-6 pages. These sections begin with key questions to highlight the primary ideas and pique student interest. They end with short summaries emphasizing important points and questions to test comprehension. If students can correctly answer the questions, they are prepared to move to the next topic.

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    Economics is defined as the study of how individuals and societies make choices about ways to use scarce resources. Each chapter contains short sections that are self-contained learning units of 3-6 pages. These sections begin with key questions to highlight the primary ideas and pique student interest. They end with short summaries emphasizing important points and questions to test comprehension. If students can correctly answer the questions, they are prepared to move to the next topic.

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    Economics is defined as the study of how individuals and societies make choices about ways to use scarce resources. Each chapter contains short sections that are self-contained learning units of 3-6 pages. These sections begin with key questions to highlight the primary ideas and pique student interest. They end with short summaries emphasizing important points and questions to test comprehension. If students can correctly answer the questions, they are prepared to move to the next topic.

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    xvi Preface

    Each chapter is comprised of approximately six to ten short sections. These sections
    are self-contained learning units, typically presented in three to six pages that include these
    helpful learning features:
    M Key Questions. Each section begins with a list of questions that highlight the primary
    ideas that students should learn from the material. These questions are intended to
    serve as a preview and to pique interest in the material to come. They also serve as
    landmarks: if students can answer these questions after reading the material, they
    have prepared well.

    Chapter 1 The Role and Method of Economics 3

    Economics: A Brief Introduction


    SECTION

    1.1 n What is economics?


    n What is scarcity?

    Economics—A Word
    with Many Different Meanings
    S ome individuals think economics involves the
    study of the stock market and corporate finance,
    and it does—in part. Others think that economics is
    concerned with the wise use of money and other mat-

    COURTESY OF ROBERT L. SEXTON


    ters of personal finance, and it is—in part. Still others
    think that economics involves forecasting or predict-
    ing what business conditions will be in the future,
    and again, it does—in part. The word economics is,
    after all, derived from the Greek Oeconomicus, which
    referred to the management of household affairs.
    Precisely defined, economics is the study of the choic-
    es we make among our many wants and desires given The front pages of our daily newspapers are filled
    our limited resources. What are resources? Resources with articles related to economics—either directly
    are inputs—land, human effort and skills, and machines or indirectly. News headlines may cover topics such
    and factories, for instance—used to produce goods as unemployment, deficits, financial markets, health
    and services. The problem is that our unlimited wants care, social security, energy issues, war, global
    exceed our limited resources, a fact that we call scarcity. warming, and so on.
    Scarcity forces us to decide how best to use our limited
    resources. This is the economic problem: Scarcity forces

    M Section Checks. It is also important that students learn to self-manage: They should
    ask themselves: How well am I doing? How does this relate to what I already know?
    The section-by-section approach provides continual self-testing along every step of
    the way. Each section ends with four to six short sentences emphasizing the impor-
    tant points in each section. It also includes four to six questions designed to test com-
    prehension of the basic points of the section just covered. Answers are provided at
    the end of each chapter so students can check their responses. If students can answer
    these Section Check questions correctly, they can feel confident about proceeding to
    the next topic.

    SECTION CHECK
    1. Economics is a problem-solving science.
    2. Economics is the study of the choices we make among our many wants and desires given our limited
    resources.
    3. Resources are inputs used to produce goods and services.
    4. Our unlimited wants exceed our limited resources, so we must make choices.
    5. Economics is concerned with reaching generalizations about human behavior.
    6. Economics provides tools to intelligently evaluate and make choices.

    1. What is the definition of economics?


    2. Why does scarcity force us to make choices?
    3. Why are choices costly?
    4. Why do even “non-economic” issues have an economic dimension?
    5. Why is economics worth studying?

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