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Households

Individual consumers provide their labour services to firms, in return for income. With this, households aim to maximize their utility (the degree of satisfaction from their purchases).

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The syllabus topics that use this term.

  • 1.1Circular Flow of Income Model

Taught in What Is Economics? Scarcity, Choice, and Economic Models

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