Fundamental Concepts | Economic Systems | Forms of Business Organization | Demand | Supply |
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What are the factors of production?
Land, Capital, labor, entrepreneurs, production
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What are the types of economic systems in the world?
Traditional, Command, Market, Mixed
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What is the most common form of business organization in the US?
Sole proprietorship
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What is Microeconomics?
The part of economic theory that deals with behavior and decision making by individual units like people and firms
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What can cause a change in supply?
Cost of resources, productivity, technology, taxes and subsidies, expectations, government regulations, and number of sellers
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What does the Circular Flow diagram represent?
the flow of economic activity from households to firms via product and factor markets
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What type of economic system is the United States?
Market
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What a key benefit to forming a partnership?
Ease of management, easy to start, lack of special taxes, easy to find/attract investors, efficient operations, easy to get top talent
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How is demand illustrated?
Schedules and curves
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What are the stages of production?
Increasing marginal returns, decreasing marginal returns, negative marginal returns
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What is the fundamental economic problem?
Scarcity
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What are the economic and social goals of the US
Economic freedom, efficiency, equity, security, full employment, price stability, economic growth
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What are the types of mergers?
Vertical, horizontal, conglomerates, multinational
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What is the law of demand?
Is a rule state that consumer swill buy more of a product at lower prices and less at higher prices.
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What are the types of costs?
Fixed, variable, total, marginal
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What is opportunity cost?
The cost of the next best altrernative
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What are the characteristics of a free enterprise capitalist system?
Economic freedom, voluntary exchange, private property rights, profit motives, competition
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What is an example of government involvement in economics (US specific)?
FDIC, US Postal Service, TVA
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What factors can change or alter quantity demanded?
Income, substitutes, compliments, expectations, number of consumers, consumer tastes
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What is perfect competition?
Where many well-informed and independent buyers and sellers exchange identical products
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What does the PPF represent?
Opportunity Cost
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What is the role of the government in the economy?
Consumer, regulator, provider, protector
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What is role do unions play in our economic system?
Collective bargaining
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What is demand elasticity?
The extent to which a change in price can cause a change in quantity demanded
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What is an oligopoly?
A market structure where there are very few large sellers that dominate an industry. It is far from perfect competition.
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