First Quiz - Chp 1,10,11,15 Flashcards

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Chp.1: Scarcity

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The limited nature of society’s resources; society has limited resources and therefore cannot produce all the goods and services people wish to have; allocating scarce resources; resources are scarce

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Chp. 1: What is economics the study of?

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How society manages its scarce resources

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Chp. 1: What is efficiency?

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Society is getting the maximum benefits from its scarce resources

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Chp. 1: Who is in the best position to allocation the economy’s scarce resources?

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Government officials

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Chp 1: What are property rights?

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The ability of an individual to own and exercise control over scarce resources

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Chp 1: What is one of the decisions that a household faces?

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Allocating scarce resources

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Chp 1: Choice

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There are always choices being made; and this is where opportunity cost comes in. No such thing as a free lunch

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Chp 1: Opportunity Cost

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The opportunity cost of something is what you give up to get it

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Chp 1: Where to rational people think?

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Rational people think at the margin; marginal change/ marginal cost, is the small incremental adjustment to an existing plan of action.

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Chp 1: Externalities

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People respond to incentives; this can affect the marginal cost and marginal benefit of something, and can influence a persons choice; impact of one person’s actions on the well being of a bystander; pollution

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Chp 10: GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

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Measures the total income of everyone in the economy; measures the total expenditure on the economy’s output of goods and services

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Chp 10: In GDP, what must income equal to?

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Expenditure; it is also equal to the total wages, rent, and profit paid by firms in the market for the factors of production

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Chp 10: Gross Domestic Product Continued

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-Market value of all final goods and services
- Produced within a country
-In a given period of time
- All items produced in the economy (AND SOLD LEGALLY)
-Produced and consumed at home
-includes tangible + intangible services
- goods + services currently produced

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Chp 10: The equation: Y = C + I + G + NX

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Y= GDP
C= Consumption
I = investment
G= government purchases
NX= net exports

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Chp 10: C = Consumption

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Spending by households goods and services
* durable + nondurable
*services: intangible, spending on ed.
Exception: PURCHASES OF NEW HOUSING

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Chp 10: I = Investment

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Purchase of (capital) goods that will be used to produce other goods and services in the future
i.e business (business structures, equipment, intellectual property), Residential (landlord’s apartment building; a homeowner’s personal residence), inventory accumulation

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Chp. 10: G = Government Purchases

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Gov. consumption expenditure and gross investment. Spending on goods and services. By local, state, and federal governments. DOES NOT INCLUDE TRANSFER PAYMENTS (food stamps, etc.)

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Chp. 10: NX = Net Exports

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Exports: spending on domestically produced goods by foreigners
Imports: Spending on foreign goods by domestic residents

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Chp 10: Circular flow model

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Households buy goods and services from firms, and firms use their revenue from sales to pay wages to workers, rent to landowners, and profit to firm owners.

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Circular flow model

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Households buy goods and services from firms, and firms use their revenue from sales to pay wages to workers, rent to landowners, and profit to firm owners.

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Chp 10: Nominal GDP

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production of goods and services valued at current prices

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Chp 10: Real GDP

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production of goods and services valued at constant prices, designated one year as base year and is not affected by changes in price

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Chp 10: What is the case for nominal GDP for the base year?

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Nominal GDP will be equal to real GDP in the base year

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Chp 10: Factors of production

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labor, land, and capital (buildings and machines); households own all of the factors of production

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Chp 10: Problems with GDP
- GDP does not directly measure those things that make life worthwhile, but it does measure our ability to obtain many of the inputs for a worthwhile life. - omits leisure - excludes the value of things that take place outside the market - examples: childcare at home by parents is not included in GDP, a meal prepared by a chef for her family does not include the quality of environment - says nothing about the distribution of income
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Chp 11: CPI (Consumer Price Index)
A measure of the overall cost of the goods and services bought by a typical consumer; it is a price index that measure the price level and thus determines the size of the inflation correction.
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Chp 11: Calculating the CPI
1. Fixing the basket 2. Find the prices 3. Compute basket's cost 4. Choose a base year and compute the index CPI = ((price of basket of goods and services in current year)/(price of basket in base year)) x 100 5. Compute the inflation rate inflation rate in year 2 = ((CPI in year 2 - CPI in year 1)/ (CPI in year 1)) x 100
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Chp 11: Inflation/ inflation rate
Economy's overall price level is rising; percentage change in some measure of the price level from one period to the next
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Chp 11: GDP Deflator
Measures the current level of prices relative to the level of prices in the base year. Can be used to take inflation out of nominal GDP; ratio of nominal GDP/ Real GDP
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Chp 11: How do you bring old dollars into today's money?
amount in today's dollars = amount in year T dollars x (price level today/ price level in year T)
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Chp. 11: Problems with Inflation?
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Chp 15: Labor Force
Employed (paid employees, self-employed, and unpaid workers in a family business) + Unemployed (people not working who have looked for work during pervious 4 weeks
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Chp 15: Adult population
Employed + Unemployed + everyone else
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Chp 15: Who is not in the labor force?
Anyone who is not employed (not categorized as employed or unemployed) and hasn't been looking
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Who is not in the labor force?
Anyone who is not employed (not categorized as employed or unemployed) and hasn't been looking
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Chp 15: Unemployment Rate ("U-rate"):
% of the labor force that is unemployed U-rate = 100 x (# of unemployed/labor force)
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Chp 15: Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR):
% of the adult population that is in the labor force LFPR = 100 x (LF/Adult Pop)
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Chp 15: What is the U-rate not a perfect indicator of? Why?
-joblessness; it excludes discouraged workers -it does not distinguish between full-time and part-time work, or people working part time because full-time jobs not available. -some people misreport their work status in the BLS survey
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Chp 15: Structural Unemployment
- Occurs when there are fewer jobs than workers - Usually longer-term
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Cap 15: Frictional Unemployment
- occurs when workers spend time searching for the jobs that best suit their skills and tastes - short-term for most workers
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Chp 15: Cyclical unemployment
The deviation of unemployment from its natural rate; associated with business cycles
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Chp 15: Natural rate of unemployment
the normal rate of unemployment around which the cyclical unemployment rate fluctuates
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Chp 15: Sectoral shifts
Changes in the composition of demand across industries or regions of the country
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Chp 15: Unemployment Insurance
- A govt. program that partially protects worker's incomes when they become unemployed - People respond to incentives
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Chp 15: Business Cycles
Expansion, peak, recession, depression, trough <-- all parts of a business cycle