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      "markdown": "### Summary\n\nThis Certificate of Achievement in Economics provides students the opportunity to learn core concepts and gain insight into the field of economics as well as serves as a steppingstone toward higher academic degrees in the field of economics. This award provides students with a pathway towards completing the Associate in Arts in Economics for Transfer Degree.\n\n**Learning Outcome(s): Students who complete the Economics Program will be able to:**\n\n1.  Define scarcity, and show how it relates to the concepts of choice and cost.\n2.  Explain the role of prices in allocating goods, services and factors of production.\n3.  Outline the role of comparative advantage in exchange.\n4.  Utilize the demand and supply model and use the model to critically analyze real world examples.\n5.  Analyze the impacts of economics on social values and policy."
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      "markdown": "### Requirements"
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