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ECON
Unit 1-2
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Economics
12th Grade
01/21/2014

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Scarcity
Definition
Problem that occurs where there is limited production
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Four factors of production
Definition
Land, Capital, Labor, and Skills/knoledge
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Allocation
Definition
Distrubtion of resources
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The three questions
Definition
What to produce, How to produce, for WHom to produce
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Opportunity Cost
Definition
Direct result of scarcity, when you give up something in place of something else
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Market Economy
Definition
Allocation and production based on buyers and sellers
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Command economy
Definition
The govt. controls all decesions of production and allocation, limited to no consumer choice
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Mixed market economy
Definition
Govt and private businesses control production and allocation of goods
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Specialization
Definition
(giving something specific to increase job productivity) Leads to an increase in productivity
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Cost benefit Analysis
Definition
Marginal benefit must outweigh the marginal cost
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Economic competition
Definition
When businesses are in direct contest to sell their products
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Economic Equity
Definition
One of the goals of economics associated with fairness
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Regulation
Definition
The term associated with when the govt. gets involved with industry to ensure quality and safety of products- Rules companies have to follow
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Profit
Definition
An incentive entrepreneurs have when getting into business
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Resource MArket
Definition
PArt of a circular flow diagram that shows where human resources are exchanged for wages, salary, or income
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Product market
Definition
PArt of a circular flow diagram that shows where payments were exchanged for finished goods or services
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Money
Definition
A medium of exchange
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Competition
Definition
If many new sellers enter a market, prices will go down
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Market clearing price
Definition
Equlibrium in an economy,
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Elasticity
Definition
A large reaction to a relatively small change in price
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Sole propiertiship
Definition
When a single person owns a business
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Partnership
Definition
Multiple people owning a business
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Corporation
Definition
The company has liability, not just the boss
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Perfect/pure competition
Definition
Selling an identical product
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Monoplistic competion
Definition
Selling similar but not identical products
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Monoply
Definition
When one company dominates the market
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Substitute Goods
Definition
One good that could be used if the price of a like item went up
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Price ceiling
Definition
Govt mandated max price you can charge for something
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Price floor
Definition
Govt mandated Minimum price you can charge for a product
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Micro economics
Definition
A study of small components of a certain economy and looks at each detail
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