Chapter 1 - Basic economic problem and factors of production Flashcards
What is economics?
What is the difference between needs and wants?
What are goods and services?
What are products?
Name and define the factors of production, and what is the factors of production?
What is the rewards for these factors of production and which ones are active and which are passive?
Differentiate between free goods and economic goods.
What is opportunity cost?
What is the difference between occupational mobility and geographical mobility? What is factor mobility and what is the importance of it?
How mobile are all the factors of production? Describe in terms of occupational and geographical mobility.
What are examples of quantitative and qualitative increase of the factors of production?
What is the result of an increase in the output of the economy?
What are the main decision-makers?
What is the production possibility curve and what are its assumptions?
What is the reason for an increasing opportunity cost making a PPC convex to origin?