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Chapter 6: Economics Flashcards

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Economics

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  • The study of the production, distribution, and consumption of resources
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Economic System

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The way a society organizes the production, distribution and consumption of resources

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Economy

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  • The resources and processes involved In the production, distribution, and consumption of goods
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Resources

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  • Money, labour, and materials need to supply what people want and need
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Scarcity

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  • When resources are limited
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What factors create scarcity?

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Factors of Production

  1. Land
  2. Labour
  3. Capital
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Land

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  • Useable land and natural resources
    Ex. renewable resources (fruit, trees)
    non renewable resources (oil, gold)
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Labour

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  • Physical and mental effort needed to produce goods and services
    Ex. farmers produce food, servers wait tables
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Capital

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  • Money available to invest in business and ideas
    Ex. a loan is needed to buy a house
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What are the three basic questions of economics?

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  1. What goods and services should be made?
    2, How will these goods and services be made
  2. Who will get these goods and services
  • Revolve around the problem of scarcity
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Market Economy

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  • Individuals make their own decisions with little help from the government
  • Resources are controlled by private companies
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How does a market economy solve scarcity?

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  • Law of Supply and Demand
  • When the supply of a good decreases, the price increases and the demand decreases
  • Allows government to find alternatives resources for that good or service
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Mixed Economy

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  • Where both government and businesses/individuals play a role in economy
  • Resources owned by private and publics sectors
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How does a mixed economy solve scarcity?

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  • Same solutions of market economy apply to mixed economy
  • Government takes care of healthcare, funding for arts etc. to help citizens
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Planned Economy

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  • Government makes all decisions about how to solve scarcity
  • Owns all resources needed to produce materials
  • Consumers have little influence on economy
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Privately Owned

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  • Controlled/owned by businesses and individuals
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Publicly Owned

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  • Owned and controlled by the government and paid for by taxes
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Public Good

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  • Whats best for society as a whole
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Public Good and Cooperation

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  • Individuals consider each other and set aside their individuals interests to achieve what’s best for society
  • Values equity
  • Recognizes other peoples need and circumstance
  • Worldview
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Public Good and Individualism

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  • Whats best for everyone indviually adds up to what’s best for society
  • Values individual creativity and independence
  • Worldview
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Canada’s Economy

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  • Mixed economy
  • Publicly funded social systems
  • Government supports Canadian arts and culture
  • Government will get involved when protecting consumers, environment and Canadian culture
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U.S Economy

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  • Market economy
  • Founding priceable reflects individualism (connects from America’s fight to separate from Britain)
  • Economic position shifts based on political party in power
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Shift Left

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  • Shift towards a more planned economy
  • More government involvement
  • Usually a liberal stance
    Ex. taxes are raised
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Shift Right

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  • Shift towards a more market economy
  • Less government involvement
  • Usually a conservative stance
    Ex. taxes are reduced
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Crown Coperation

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  • Company owned by Canada’s government
  • Provides goods and services to Canadians
    Ex. Petro Canada
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Why did Canada’s government create essential services?

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  • To provide essential services
  • To promote economic development
  • To support Canadian culture and identity
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Consumers

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  • People who buy products and services
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Demand

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  • The wants and needs of consumers for products and services
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Producers

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  • People who create goods and services
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Supply

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  • The products and services created by producers
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Law of Supply and Demand

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Supply goes up
Price goes down
Demand goes up

Supply goes down
Price goes up
Demand goes down

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Competition

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  • The fight between producers to sell products to consumers
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Monopoly

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  • When sectors in an economy are controlled by a single company, which then has total control over price, availability and choice
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Why would governments intervene in free market economies?

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  • To break up monopolies and create competition
  • To help consumers
    (fix unfair prices or force producers to supply information on a product)
  • To encourage good behaviors and discourage bad behaviours
    Ex. heavy taxes on cigarettes
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Unemployment Rate

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  • The percentage of the workforce that is unenployed
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Strike

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  • When workers stop working as a form of protest
  • Strikes pressure employers to respond to issues that concern workers
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Labour Unions

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  • An organization of workers that acts to protect workers rights and interests
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Collective Bargaining

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  • Negotiating as a group
  • Key right for workers established by unions
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Collusion

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  • A secret/illegal operation or conspiracy

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