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What is Demand
The desire, ability, and willingness to buy a product
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What is supply
the amount of a product that sellers and willing and able to sell
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What is equilibrium
Where supply and demand meet
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What is complement
Good that goes with something else
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What is subsidy
Government payment to an individual, business, or other group to encourage or protect certain type of economic activity
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What is microeconomics
Area of economics that deals with behaviors on a small scale
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What is Law of Supply
States that price and quantity move in the same direction
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What is a shortage
More demand than supply
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What is substitution effect
Change in quantity demanded because people buy something else to replace the product
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What is rationing
a system under which an agency decides everyone's fair share
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What is the Law of Demand
States that price and quantity move in opposite directions
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What is a supply curve
Graph showing various quantities supplied at a given price
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What is surplus
More supply than demand
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What is....
Name two elastic goods...
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What is a rebate
a partial refund
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What is diminishing marginal utility
States that the extra satisfaction we get from using additional quantities of the product begins to diminish
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What is...
Name two non-price factors that can make a supply curve shift
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What is the minimum wage
Example of a price floor
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What is
Name two inelastic goods...
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What is a price floor
the minimum that can be charged for a good
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What is income effect
Change in quantity demanded because of a change in consumers' real income
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What is production function
concept that describes the relationship between changes in output to different amounts of a single input while other inputs are held constant
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What is a price ceiling
the maximum that can be charged for a good
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What is elasticity
A measure of responsiveness to a good
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What is equilibrium price
the price that "clears the market" by leaving neither a surplus nor a shortage at the end of the trading period
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