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Unit 1.1: Introduction to Economics

This page covers the introduction to Economics as a subject. It includes Economics as a social science, scarcity, resources, opportunity cost and the production possibility model. Economics is the study of how society allocates scarce resources to satisfy human wants and needs. Human wants are people’s desire to consume goods and services to derive satisfaction from their consumption. Human needs are the basic goods...

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