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Unit 1 Flashcards

1
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Def: individual choice

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decisions by individuals about what to do and not do

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Def: economy

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a system for coordinating a society’s productive and consumptive activities

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Def: market economy

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the decisions of individual producers and consumers determine the 3 economic questions (what, how, for who to produce) – little government interventions
**Private property rights!!*

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Def: command economy

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industry is publicly owned, central authority makes production decisions

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5
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Def: property rights

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establish ownership & gives individuals the right to trade goods and services with each other

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Def: marginal analysis

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the study of the costs and benefits of doing a little bit more of an activity (vs a little bit less)

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what is a resource

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anything that can be used to produce something else (factors of production)

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8
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Def: opportunity cost

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the value of the next best alternative that you must give up in order to get the item

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Def: microeconomics

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the study of how individuals, households, and firms make decisions and how they interact

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10
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Def: economic aggregates

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economic measures that summarize data across man different markers (employment + inflation rates, GDP, etc)

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Def: Positive economics

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branch of economic analysis that describe the way the economy actually works

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12
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Def: Normative economics

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makes statements about the way the economy should work

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land

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all resources that come from nature (minerals, water, cotton, etc)

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labour

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the effort of workers

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entrepreneurship

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risk taking, innovation, organization for the resources for production

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capital

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manufactured goods used to make other goods and services (machinery, buildings, tools, etc)

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17
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What does the production possibilities curve represent?

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the trade-offs in an economy that produces only two goods - max quantity of one good that can be produced for each possible quantity of the other good

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18
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When is an economy considered efficient?

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when there is no way to make anyone better off without making at least one person worse off

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when will an economy achieve productive efficiency?

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if it produces at a point on the PPC

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what is allocative efficiency?

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if an economy produces at the point along its PPC that makes consumers as well off as possible

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21
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what does a PPC look like with an increasing opportunity cost

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bowed out

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what does a PPC look like with an decreasing opportunity cost

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bowed in

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Def: comparative advantage

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opportunity cost of producing the good is lower then another persons opportunity cost

24
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Def: absolute advantage

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a person can make more of a good in a given amount of time

25
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terms of trade

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indicate the rate at which one good can be exchanged for another

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Def: utility

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a measure of personal satisfaction

27
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Def: marginal utility

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the added utlity

28
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Def: total utility

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overall satisfaction that a consumer has from the consumption of a particular good/service

29
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what does the marginal utility curve show

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how marginal utility depends on the quantity of a good/service consumed

30
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what is the principle of diminishing marginal utility

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each additional unit of a good or service consumed adds less to the total utility then the previous unit

31
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Def: budget constraint

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limits the cost of a consumers consumption bundle

32
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what are a consumers consumption possibilities

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the set of all consumption bundles that are affordable

33
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Def: marginal utility per dollar

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additional utility form spending one more dollar on a good or service

34
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how do you determine marginal utility/dollar spent on a good

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marginal utility of one unit / price of one unit

35
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what is the optimal consumption rule

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in order to maximize utility, the marginal utility per dollar spent on each good is the same for the consumer (MU_a/MP_a = MU_b=MP_b)

36
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capital vs consumer goods

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capital: man-made products used to make other consumer or capital goods (indirect)
consumer: products used by consumers (direct)

37
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Scarcity

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resources are limited, wants are unlimited

38
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3 economic questions

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What to produce
How to produce it
Who to produce it for

39
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explicit costs

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the money you spend because of the choice you made

40
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implicit costs

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money lost (opportunity costs)

41
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true opportunity cost

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explicit + implicit cost
EG: take a day off work (could have made $80), spent $20 at movie
$20 is explicit cost
$80 is implicit (lost revenue)
$100 total opportunity cost

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What does a PPC represent

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Maximum combinations of the production of 2 goods that can be produced with fixed resources

43
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when will the PPC change?

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when there is a change in either the quality or quantity of resources

44
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Def: price

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amount buyer pays for good/service

45
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def: cost

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amount seller pays

46
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productivity

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a measure of efficiency that shows the number of outputs per unit of inputs

47
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def: economic system

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method used by society to produce and distribute goods and services

48
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def: Ceteris Paribus

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all other conditions remain the same

49
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what is the rule for specialization and trade

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specialize in the good that is cheaper to produce (lower opportunity cost)

50
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what is cost-benefit analysis

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process to measure the benefits of a decision (cost associated with making that decision)

51
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def: marginal analysis

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making decisions based on incremements

52
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what is the utility maximizing rule

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money should be spent so that MU/$ of each good equals each other

53
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allocative efficiency

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optimal distribution of g/s to consumers & optimal distribution of financial capital to firms

54
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productive efficiency

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market optimized to produce the max output from fixed resources

55
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what 3 things will shift the PPC

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  1. change in quantity or quality of resources
  2. change in technology
  3. change in trade
56
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what is the role of property rights

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creates incentives in market economies – establishes ownership and grants people the right to trade goods/services for mutual gain44

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