Economics: Chapter 1 Flashcards
Who is the ultimate source of wealth?
God
Economics is the study of choices people make in what?
Prodction, distribution, and consumption of goods.
How can a prosperous life be maintained?
An efficient economic check
What is the Greek term for Economics?
House-law
There can be no culture without what?
Economy
What is the study of national and international economics and how these major eonomics aer affected by large scale choices and public policies.
Macroeconomics
What is the study of specific componets within a major economy and how choices made by individual households and buisnesses affect the economy.
Microeconomics
What is the first thing to understand about economics?
All goods have to be worked for
Are most people consumers or producers?
Producers
What is the study of material life?
Economics
What are the three questions that we need to ask?
- What do we need most?
- What can we afford?
- How can we earn enough to get more of the goods we want?
What is anything used in the production and distribution of goods and services?
Capital goods
What is usefulness?
Utility
What is avalibility?
Scarcity