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| A visual model of the economy that shows how dollars flow through markets among households and firms. |
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| The study of economy-wide phenomena, including inflation, unemployment, and economic growth. |
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| The study of how households and firms make decisions and how they interact in markets. |
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| Claims that attempt to prescribe how the world should be. |
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| Claims that attempt to describe the world as it is. |
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| production possibilities frontier |
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| A graph that shows the combinations of output that the economy can possibly produce given the available factors of production and the available production technology. |
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