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What are the three main parts of Economics? hint PDC

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Production, Distribution, and Consumption.

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Define Scarcity?

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Our resources are limited.

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3
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With Economics we start learning more about the _____ we have to make?

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Choices.

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4
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With Choices comes a certain ___?

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Cost.

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5
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Everytime we get something, we..

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give something up.

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What are the 3 factors of production? LLC

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Land, Labor, and Capital.

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7
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What is an Entrepreneur?

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A person who puts together land, labor, and capital to make new businesses.

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What is it called when we choose one course of action over another?

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Trade-off.

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What is it called when we give up the most desirable alternative given up for the decision?

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Opportunity cost.

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10
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What is thinking at the margin?

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Sometimes a decision involves whether to add or subtract one additional unit of a resource.

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What does a production of possibilities graph show?

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Alternative ways of using a country’s or producer’s resources.

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12
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What is efficiency?

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Uses it’s resources in such a way to maximize production.

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What is under-utilization?

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An economy using fewer resources than it is capable of using.

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What does the production of possibilities frontier line show on the graph?

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It shows the maximum possible production.

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In a traditional economy what do people live and work as?

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Their ancestors.

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In a free market economy what are people free to do?

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Buy and sell whatever their money allows.

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In a centrally planned economy who makes all the economic decisions?

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The Government.

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18
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What do nations today prefer?

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A mixed economy.

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19
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What is the term used to describe the belief that the government should not intervene in the market?

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Laissez-Faire.

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20
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The free enterprise is a mostly free market economy with…

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limited government intervention.

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21
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In the free enterprise, the government does intervene in the economy when it is…

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in the public interest.

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What is it called when the market doesn’t provide the goods or services consumers need?

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A market failure.

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23
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What is public goods?

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A good or service created by the government through tax dollars.

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What is it called when a person uses a good or service but would not choose to pay for the good and service?

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A free rider.

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25
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What is Automobile pollution an example of?

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Negative externality.

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26
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What is the cancer fighting properties in tomato sauce an example of?

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Positive externality.

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27
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Demand curve shows how price influences the amount…

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people want to buy.

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28
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Demand schedule records…

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the quantity demanded at various prices.

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29
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What is the law of demand?

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States that consumers buy more of a good when its price decreases.

30
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The substitution effect occurs when a consumer reacts to an increase in a good’s price by buying less of that good and more…

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of a similar yet cheaper good.

31
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What is the income effect?

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The change in consumption resulting from change in income. OR When prices rise, your money buys less.

32
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The law of supply is the tendency of suppliers to offer more of a good at a…

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higher price.

33
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A supply curve is a graphic representation showing the tendency of suppliers to supply…

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more at higher prices.

34
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A supply curve will always rises…

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left to right.

35
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Elastic is blank to changes in price or income.

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Sensitive.

36
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Inelastic is blank to changes in price or income.

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Insensitive.

37
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If equilibrium is quantity supplied equals quantity demanded then disequilibrium is…

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Quantity supplied that does not equal the quantity demanded.

38
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What is it called when the quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded?

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Surplus.

39
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What is another name for surplus?

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Excess supply.

40
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Does the price have to raised or lowered to restore the market to equilibrium if a surplus happened?

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Lowered.

41
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What is it called when quantity demand is greater than quantity suplied?

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Shortage.

42
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What is another name for shortage?

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Excess demand.

43
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When a shortage happens do you have to raise or lower the price to restore the market to equilibrium?

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Raised.

44
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If prices are viewed as lights on a traffic light, what are high prices (green/red) to consumers/suppliers? 2 answers.

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consumers = red
suppliers = green
45
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If prices are viewed as lights on a traffic light, what are low prices (green/red) to consumers/suppliers? 2 answers.

A 
consumers = green
suppliers = red
46
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Why is rationing costly to administers?

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It requires government planning.

47
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What are corporations owned by?

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Stockholders.

48
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What can corporations not be ? Because they are considered separate entitys.

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Sued.

49
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What is it called after corporations pay taxes on their profits, and individual stockholders must also pay taxes on their dividends or share of their profits?

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Double Taxation.

50
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When a person buys stock, he is buying partial ownership in a…

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corporation.

51
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When a person buys a bond, he is loaning money to a corporation or g…

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government.

52
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Stocks, you … Bonds, you ….

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Stocks, you own. Bonds, you loan.

53
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What is it called when investors make money on their investment?

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Return.

54
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What is the term that describes payments made by corporations to stockholders?

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Dividends.

55
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Describe what Capital Gain is?

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Selling a stock for more than its original purchase price.

56
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If Capital Gain is selling a stock for more than its original purchase price, what is Capital Loss?

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Occurs when an investor sells his stock for less than the original purchase price.

57
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What is the “thing” called that monitors and reports generally on the trading activities of thirty of the most powerful companies?

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The Dow or The Dow Jones Industrial Average.

58
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What is it called when the stock market rises steadily over a period of time?

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A Bull Market.

59
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What is it called when the stock market falls over a period of time?

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A Bear Market.

60
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What determines how much money each person in a society would receive if wealth from GDP was divided equally among the people of that nation?

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Real GDP Per Capita.

61
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Describe what Capital Deepening is…

The process of increasing the amount of…

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capital per worker.

62
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What is the tool for tracking macroeconomic progress?

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GDP (Gross Domestic Product).

63
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What is Gross Domestic Product?

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Is the dollar value of all final goods and services produced within a country’s borders in a given year.

64
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Explain the difference between durable and non-durable goods?

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Durable is when goods last for a long time.

Non-durable is when goods last for a short time.

65
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What is it called when a contraction lasts for atleast six months?

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Recession.

66
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Blank is a particularly severe and long contraction.

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Depression.

67
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What is the money supply made of?

HINT- two things that start with M.

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M1 and M2.

68
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If M1 is money that people can easily use to pay for goods and services, like cash and checks. Example what M2 is…

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Assets that must be converted to cash before they are used, like savings accounts and mutual funds.

69
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What is Interest?

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The price of borrowed money.

70
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By learning the language of banking,…

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a person makes better choices.

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