1st Semester Final - Short Answer Flashcards
Why do insatiability and scarcity necessitate choice?
Choices are necessary because they pull a person in opposite directions, both cannot be satisfied.
Explain and give an example of the following: Goods, free good, and economic good.
Good - Any physical object that a consumer can buy; items
Free Good - Gifts from God; water, air
Economic Good - Any good or service that has a value and can be sold; food, toys, haircuts.
What is the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics? Give examples of each.
Microeconomics is the choices made the individual units - people
Macroeconomics is large scale economic choices - country/companies
What character quality is essential for the Christian to have victory over insatiability?
Contentment
What are the two purposes for economic models?
Instructions and predictions of future events
For an ecnomist, what is the primary value of a production possibilities curve?
A PPC enables the economists to see the maximum feasible amount that a business can produce with its limited resources.
Name the four factors of production or the four payments businesses make in exchange for the factors of production.
Land, labor, capital, Entrepreneurship
Rent, wages, interest, profit
Why is the financial market necessary for the effective functioning of a developed society?
Financial market takes the savings of households and channels them to businesses so that the financial capital can help business firms operate effectively.
With what ecoonimc principle do we most often associate Ludwig Von Mises?
Free Market
Who identified the principle of diminishing marginal utility?
William Stanley Jevons
State the Law of Demand
Everything else being held constant, the lower the price charged for a good or service the greater the quantity people will demand and vice verse.
When an individual makes a decision at the margin, how does he determine the amount to obtain?
The individual chooses to obtain the amount at which the marginal benefit just offsets the marginal cost.
What four conditions may change the demand for a product?
- Change in people’s incomes
- Change in price of related goods
- Change in people’s tastes and preferences
- Change in people’s expectations
What are three functions of prices?
Prices transmit info
Provide incentives
They redistribute income
State the Law of Supply
Alaw stating that the higher the price buyers are willing to pay, other things being held constant, the greater the quantity of the product a supplier will produce and vice versa
