Vocab | Circular Flow model | Production Possibility Curve | Economic systems | Random |
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What is scarcity?
Scarity is unlimited wants, but limited resources.
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What are examples of expenditures for a business?
-Rent
-Wages |
What does the slope of the production possibilities curve indicate?
Marginal opportunity cost
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What do economic systems do?
They allow countries to determine how scarce resources will be allocated.
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What is growth?
growth is increasing the amount of goods and services produced in an economy.
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What is opportunity cost?
Opportunity cost is the most desirable option given up.
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What are the two markets in the circular flow model?
-product market
-resource market |
What does the production possibilities curve show?
different combinations of two goods that an economy can produce.
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What are the three types of economic systems?
-command
-market -traditional |
Why trade?
it benefits all of the participating economies.
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What is efficiency?
efficiency is getting the most out of ones resources for the least cost?
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What are the three main sectors of the circular flow model?
-business
-household -government |
If there is zero opportunity cost per unit of good Y, what will the production possibilities curve look like?
perfectly inelastic
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In a command economy, how are the decisions made?
By a central leader/ government
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All decisions involve a _______.
A tradeoff
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What is absolute advantage?
absolute advantage is when one worker can produce more than another with the same resources.
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Circular flow model shows the ____ flow and the _____ flow.
-real
-money |
If the opportunity cost of good Y is increasing constantly at the same rate, what will the production possibilities curve look like?
decreasing at a constant rate
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In a traditional economy, they decide what and how to produce goods based on _______.
Their beliefs and customs
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Peoples _______, ________, and ________ are affected by their economic system.
jobs, income, and lifestyle
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What is comparative advantage?
comparative advantage is when countries specialize in production of goods and services that they can produce at a lower opportunity cost than the trade partner.
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Both businesses and households give _____ to the government.
-taxes
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What could cause the production possibilities curve to shift outward?
advancements in technology
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In a market economy, decisions are based on ___________ choice.
individual
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The four categories of economic resources are ________, _________, _________, and ___________.
land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurial ability
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