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BASIC ECONOMIC CONCEPTS Flashcards

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One who manages the households

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Oikonomos

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The study how society manages its scarce resources

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Economics

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Two central economic problems / individual economizing problems :

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Scarcity of Resources and Multiplicity of wants and needs

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Focuses on facts, Cause and effect, It avoids valued judgement, Concerns what is

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Positive

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Opinionated, incorporates valued judgement, ought or should

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Normative

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Father of Economics

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Adam Smith

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7
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Book of Adam smith

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Wealth of Nation 1776

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Restrict options demand sources, The basic of all economic activities, Reason why opportunity costs arises

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Scarcity

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Which you forego or what are you willing to give up when you make a decision or choice

Foregone alternative

What a person loses by choosing one opportunity instead of another

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Opportunity Costs

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Refers to the value of what is given up in order to produce that additional unit

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Marginal Costs

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Refers to what people are willing to give up in order to obtain one more unit of good

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Marginal Benefit

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Is concern with the behavior of individual units, households, factors of production and firms

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Microeconomics

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Is concern with the economy as a whole

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Macroeconomics

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3 basic economic problems

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  1. What are the goods produce & how much?
  2. How are the goods produce?
  3. For whom are the goods produce?
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4 factors of production:

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  1. Land
  2. Labor
  3. Capital
  4. Entrepreneurial ability or Entrepreneur
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16
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Includes all natural resources

17
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Consist of physical actions and mental activities that contribute to the production of services

18
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Man made-aid production

19
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Combine land, labor and capital to make them more productive

Captain of industry

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Entrepreneurial ability

20
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PPF, PPB

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Production Possibility Frontier
Production Possibility Boundary

21
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In which large number of independently acting buyers and sellers come together to buy and sell standardized products

Bring together buyer and seller

22
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Is a schedule or a curve the shows the various amount of a product the consumers are WILLING and ABLE to purchase at each of a series of possible prices during a specified period of time

23
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2 requisites of demand:

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  1. Willingness to buy
  2. Ability to buy
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5 non price determinants of demand:

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  1. Income
  2. Population
  3. Taste and preferences
  4. Price expectation
  5. Prices of related goods
25
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2 types of prices of related goods:

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  1. Compliment goods
  2. Substitute goods
26
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Is one that is used together with another good

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Compliment goods

27
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Is one that can be used in place of another good

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Substitute goods

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