1st Semester Final - Terms Flashcards

1
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Deciding whether to do or use one additional unit or resource.

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Thinking at the Margin

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2
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A phrase that refers to what nations face.

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Guns or Butter

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3
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Ambitious leader who creates new goods and services.

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Entrepreneur

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4
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All human made goods that are used to create other goods.

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Physical Capital

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5
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Effort that people devote to a task.

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Labor

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6
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Physical objects such as goods or phones.

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Goods

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7
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An item that we desire but it’s not essential to live.

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Want

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8
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The common sense science of how and why people, business and governments make the choices they do.

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Economics

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9
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Everything that is finite or limited to quantity

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Scarcity

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10
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Uses wisely and well of what God has given

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Stewardship

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11
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To determine the nature of the product.

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Intrinsic Value

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12
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Also known as schedule, and a popular method of explaining simple relationships between pairs.

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Tabular Model

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13
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Contains horizontal and vertical axis that can used for many purposes.

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Line Graph

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14
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This provides a complete visual explanation of how a complete national economic system functions.

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Circular Flow Model

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15
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Land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship

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Factors of Production

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16
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The payment made on borrowed money.

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Interest

17
Q

When a government spending exceeds when it receives in taxes

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Budget Deficit

18
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Difference between revenues receive and costs that go in production.

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Profit

19
Q

All payments for labor

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Wages

20
Q

The activity of reacting new and useful services

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Consumption Expenditures

21
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Household’s spending on goods and services

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Principle of Diminishing Marginal Utility

22
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The willingness of consumers to purchase a product and the actual act of purchasing it.

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Demand

23
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Goods that experience an increase in demand because of an increase of consumer’s incomes.

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Normal Goods

24
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Goods that households may use in place of others.

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Substitute Goods

25
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Goods that are usually purchased that are used together.

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Complementary Goods

26
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Items that see in decline in sales as consumers incomes increases.

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Inferior Goods

27
Q

When a demand curve shifts to the left or the right.

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Change in Demand

28
Q

When the government dictates that the prices may not rise any higher.

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Price Ceiling

29
Q

A barrier that prevents prices falling below the market price.

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Price Floor

30
Q

The price at which consumers are willing to take from the market that exact quantity of a product that suppliers that will put into the market.

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Market Equilibrium Price

31
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The willingness of business to produce more of their product at any given price.

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Increase in Supply

32
Q

Supply fluctuation up or down

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Changes in Supply

33
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A graph that shows alternative ways to use the economy’s resources

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Production Possibility Curve