| Powers of Economic Thinking | Economic Basics | Production Possibilities | Supply and Demand | Other | 
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					  Opportunity Cost					 
					 The next highest-valued alternative  | 
					  Resources					 
					 Another word for factors of production | 
					  Absolute Advantage					 
					 One entity can produce something absolutely faster than or greater than another entity. | 
					  Competitive is a market with many buyers and sellers					 
					 The economic difference between a market and a competitive market | 
					  Deficit					 
					 Spending is greater than revenue during one year | 
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					  Margin					 
					 The weighing of additional costs and additional benefits of a specific change in the current situation | 
					  Capital					 
					 Another word for factors of production | 
					  Comparative Advantage					 
					 One entity that can produce something at a lower marginal opportunity production cost than another | 
					  Price					 
					 What variable changes quantity demanded? | 
					  Consumer Price Index					 
					 A relative measure of how consumer prices change for a representative “basket” of goods, purchased by the majority of urban consumers | 
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					  It depends					 
					 The answer to most questions in economics | 
					  Entrepreneurship					 
					 Factor of production that deals with profit and loss | 
					  Make yourself worse off in the short run 					 
					 What is necessary to do to make yourself better off in the long run? | 
					  Qs- it is the amount that will be sold at a specific P. S- is a schedule of quantities of goods and services that will be sold at various prices at a specified time, all other things held constant. 
					 What Qs and S represent in terms of supply- be specific! | 
					  Trade surplus					 
					 When the value of imports > the value of exports | 
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					  All decisions are rational					 
					 The second power in economic thinking | 
					  Scarcity					 
					 The definition of wants exceeding resources | 
					  Consumption goods, capital goods					 
					 What are on the x and y axes of a production curve? | 
					  1. # of suppliers 2. Costs 3. Physical Availability of Resources 4. Technology 5. Expected Future Prices by Supplier 
					 The determinants of supply  | 
					  Natural Rate of Unemployment 					 
					 Normal rate of unemployment around which the unemployment rate fluctuates | 
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					  People are maximizers					 
					 The fifth power of economic thinking | 
					  Post Hoc Fallacy					 
					 A false cause and effect relationship | 
					 The factors that shift the PP curve outward | 
					  of consumers 2. Income--Normal Goods 3. Income--Inferior Goods 4. Preferences 5. Price of related products: Substitutes 6. Price of related products: Complements 7. Expected future P’s by consumers 8. Expected future Y by consumers 
					 The determinants of demand | 
					  Frictional Unemployment 					 
					 When people are moving (transiting) from one job to another (searching) |