Aperson's understanding of the thoughts of other people is called:

   Empathy

Explanation:  Empathy is the ability to see and understand someone else's reference system of thinking, feeling, perception of reality, etc. Simply put, it is the ability to put yourself in the skin of someone else. The empathic person is emotionally stable and on the basis of this fact has the ability to experience a wide range of different feelings and thoughts that belong to a different mental structure.

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every society, in order to meet the needs of it's people, has to answer three basic questions:

- what should we produce?

- how should we produce it?

- for whom should we produce it?

this questions must be answered in order to, option b, aid in production decisions.

every country can't produce everything, no matter how rich their land is. it may be a matter of technology, resources or geographical conditions. so, these three questions must be resolved in order to get the most of the production of each land.

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