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52 Cards in this Set
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Economics
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the study of limited resources in response to unlimited wants
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Scarcity
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a situation in which there are too few resources to meet all human wants, i.e. oil, doctors, humans
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The Margin
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the cutoff point; decision making at the margin refers to deciding on one more or one less of something
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Microeconomics
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analyzes the individual components of the economy, such as the choices made by people, firms, and industries.
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Macroeconomics
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analyzes economic total, such as total employment, output, growth, and inflation. The big picture
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GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
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measures the market value of a country’s collective output—the market value of the goods and services that a country produces in one year.
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Markets
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make possible the voluntary exchange of resources, goods, and services; can take physical, electronic, and other forms
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Market prices
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serve as signals the guide the allocation of resources.
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What?
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What goods and services will be produced and offered for sale and in what quantities?
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How?
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How will goods and services be produced?
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For Whom?
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Who will consume the goods and services that are produced?
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Command and Control
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government decrees that direct economic activity
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Free Market
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the collective decisions of individual buyers and sellers that, taken together, determine (the three ?s) what outputs are produced, how those outputs are produced, and who receives the outputs; free markets depend on private property and free choice
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Mixed Economies
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the mixture of free-market and command-and-control methods of resource allocation that characterize modern economies
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Equity
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fairness
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Efficiency
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means that resources are used in ways that provide the most value; implies that no one can be made better off without someone else becoming worse off
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Technological Efficiency
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the greatest quantity of output for given inputs; likewise, for any given output, requires the least-cost production technique; uses resources for the best price (lowest cost)
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Allocative Efficiency
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involves choosing the most valuable mix of outputs to produce; the best combination of “things” for the most value
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Comparative Advantage
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What I do best for the best value
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Absolute Advantage
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the ability to produce a good with a fewer resources than other producers
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Market Failure
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situation in which the market outcome is inefficient
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Opportunity Costs
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the value of the best alternative opportunity forgone. The most valuable alternative to what you’re doing
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Marginal Opportunity Cost
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the additional opportunity cost from choosing an additional unit
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Land
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natural resources in their natural states; crude oil
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Labor
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the human ability to work
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Human Capital
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acquired skills and abilities embodied within a person; schools
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Capital
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anything that is produced in order to increase productivity in the furture; includes human capital and physical capital
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Entrepreneurship
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personal initiative to combine resources in productive ways; involves human capital and physical capital
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Technology
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possible techniques of production
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Production Possibilities Frontier
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a model that shows the various combinations of two goods the economy is capable of producing
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Money
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a medium of exchange to prevent bartering; a measure of value
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Law of increasing cost
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the rise in the marginal opportunity cost of producing a good as more of that good is produced
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Trade
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allows to consume things I can't produce
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Economic Growth
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the ability of the economy to produce more or better output
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Barter
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the exchange of goods and services directly for another. without the use of money
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Circular Flow
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a model of the economy that depicts how the flow of money facilitates a counter flow of resources, goods, and services in the input and output markets (See pg. 42)
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Output Market
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the market where goods and services are bought and sold
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Input Market
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the market where resources are bought and sold
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Demand (consumers)
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Goods at a certain price, at a certain time; aka demand schedule or demand curve
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Quantity Demand
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the quantity that consumers would purchase at a given price
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Ceteris Paribus
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holding all else constant; isolate the demand curve
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Law of Demand
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as price falls, the quantity demanded increases
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Normal Goods
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goods vary directly ↑↑ with income
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Inferior Goods
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goods vary inversely ↑↓
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Substitutes
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something that takes the place of something else, such as one brand of cola for another
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Complements
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goods and services that go well with each other, such as cream with coffee
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Supply
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relates the quantity of a good that will be offered for sale at each of various possible prices, over some period of time
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Quantity Supplied
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the quantity that will be offered for sale at a given price
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Law of Supply
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as price rises, the quantity supplied increases
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Market Equilibrium
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a situation in which there is no tendency for either price or quantity to change
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Surplus
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the excess of quantity supplied over quantity demanded, which occurs when price is above equilibrium
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Shortage
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the excess of quantity demanded over quantity supplied, which occurs when price is below equilibrium
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