1140 Flashcards

1
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What are grown, mined, or manufactured commodities;

A

Goods;

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2
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What value is based on the value and scarcity of a products components and labor required to produce it;

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Intrinsic value;

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3
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What is consumer satisfaction received from a good or service; what is a satisfaction derived from the consumption of one unit of that good or service; what is the decrease in satisfaction provided by the consumption of each individual unit

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Utility; marginal utility; diminishing marginal utility

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4
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An expression of value in terms of money

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Price

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5
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What are the five limiting factors of production in a free market economy

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Capital
natural resources
management
labor

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6
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What is determined by the interaction of supply and demand

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Market price

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7
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The quantity of a good or service available for sale

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Supply

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8
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The desire for a good or service coupled with the ability and willingness to purchase it

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Demand

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9
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What five things can demand be influenced by

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The price of a product or service
The urgency of the consumers need
The supply of the product or service
The utility of the product or service
Consumer income
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10
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What is a demand or Supply schedule

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A supply or demand schedule is a table listing amount of product consumers will purchase at various prices, in a specific Market, at a given point in time

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11
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What is a demand or supply curve

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A demand or supply curve is a graph showing information from a demand or Supply schedule

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12
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What four changes may cause a shift in demand

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A change in consumer income
A change in the price of alternative choices
A change in consumer expectations
A change in consumer tastes and preferences

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13
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What occurs when Supply exceeds demand; what results when demand exceeds Supply

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Surplus; shortage

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14
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What happens during a long run

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All production factors may be varied

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15
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What happens during a short run

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Only some production factors may be varied

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16
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Which run is price a major influence on Supply

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Short run

17
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What’s run is cost of production and Technology a major influence

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Long run

18
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What are inelastic supplies

A

Agricultural products

19
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What are elastic supplies

A

Luxuries

20
Q

The market always tends toward what

A

Equilibrium

21
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What price is the price at which supply and demand are equal and all elements of the market are satisfied

A

Equilibrium

22
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What equilibrium occurs when there is a period of perfect inelasticity of Supply in which the supplier cannot expand production and the supply is fixed

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Instantaneous

23
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What is a fixed lower limit for Price or wage; what is a fixed upper limit

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Floor; ceiling

24
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What are the methods of eliminating a Surplus

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Increasing demand
Decreasing Supply
Lowering price until the Surplus is sold

25
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What are the methods of eliminating a shortage

A

Increasing Supply
Increasing price and production
Decrease in demand

26
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What are activities performed for others

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Services

27
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What value is based on the consumer’s idea of the products usefulness to him

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Subjective value

28
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What things can supply be influenced by

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Cost of production, technology, time, price

29
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What are the two laws of supply

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Supply varies directly with price… the higher the price the greater the supply

30
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What are the two laws of demand

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Demand varies inversely with price; the lower the price of Greater the demand

31
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It takes a longer period of time to increase the supply of a good with an what Supply but supplies of goods with an what Supply can be increased in a short time

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Inelastic… Elastic