Chapter 2 Vocab Flashcards
Comparative Advantage
Better suited to the production of one good than to the production of another good.
Efficiency
Achieving a goal using as few inputs as possible.
Globalization
Increasing integration of economics, cultures, and institutions across the world.
Inefficiency
Getting less output from inputs that, if devoted to some other activity, would produce more output.
Laissez-faire
An economic policy of leaving coordination of individuals actions to the market.
Law of One Price
The wages of workers in one country will not differ significantly from the wages of (equal) workers in another institutionally similar country.
Production Possibility Curve
A curve measuring the maximum combination of outputs that can be obtained from a given number of inputs.
Productive efficiency
Achieving as much output as possible from a given amount of inputs or resources.