ENGG econ Flashcards
it is the analysis and evaluation of the factors that will affect the success of engineering projects to the end that a recommendation be made which will ensure the best use of capital.
Engineering Economy
It is an economic or a market situation in which only a single seller or producer supplies a commodity or a service.
Monopoly
it is a market situation in which there are so few suppliers of a particular product that one supplier’s actions significantly impact prices and supply.
Oligopoly
it is a market condition in which a product is traded freely by buyers and sellers in large numbers without any individual transaction affecting the price.
Perfect competition
it is an economic or market situation in which a single consumer or buyer buys a commodity or a service from suppliers.
Monopsomy
it is an economic or market situation in which there are many sellers or producers that supplies a commodity or a service to very few consumers.
Oligopsomy
it is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and distribution of goods, characterized by a free competitive market and motivation by profit
Capitalism
these are tangible things – things that you can touch – that satisfy human wants.
Goods
these are activities that people do for themselves or for other people to satisfy their wants.
Services
products or services that are required to support human life and activities, which will be purchased in somewhat the same quantity even though the price varies considerably.
Necessities
products or services that are desired by humans and will be purchased if money is available after the required necessities have been obtained.
Luxuries
the quantity of a certain commodity that is bought at a certain price at a given place and time.
Quantity Demand
the quantity of a certain commodity that is offered for sale at a certain price at a given place and time.
Quantity Supply
under conditions of perfect competition, the price at which a given product will be supplied and purchased is the price that will result in the supply and the demand being equal.
Law of supply and demand
when the use of one of the factors of production is limited, either in increasing cost or by absolute quantity, a point will be reached beyond which an increase in the variable factors will result in a less that proportionate increase in output.
Law of deminishing returns