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Economics Semester 2
This is so you know terms and stuff on economics
| A Little | Of Everything |
|---|---|
| Ability to pay | Other than the desire for a good or product what is needed to make up demand? |
| Barriers to Entry | The situations that make starting a firm in a particular industry difficult. |
| Competition | When sellers actively compete for the dollars of consumers, it is called |
| Decreases | According to the Law of Demand "As price of the good or service increases demand for that product |
| Discretionary Spending | A continual rise over time in a nation's production of goods and services |
| The Economic way of thinking | Understanding that all human behavior involves choice and that these choices can be analyzed |
| Gross Domestic Product | The sum of all goods and services produced within a country for a given year. |
| How others value what you do How well you do what you do How difficult it is to replace you | How much you earn depends on the value of your work, how well you do at your job, and determines what a person makes. |
| If you decide to buy something, you are | a consumer |
| Income Taxes | Taxes placed on an individual's income. |
| Monopolistic Competition Oligopoly | Monetary policy deals with |
| Patents CopyRight | The gov't creates policies to help improve market outcomes is done with Services |
| Services | Actives preformed by people firms or government agencies to satisfy economic wants . Cannot be stored or transported and are not instantly perishable. Come into existence when they are bought and consumed. |
| Supply | The amount of a good or service that is available for sale. |
| An unintended consequence | Something that was not planned to happen |
| What can be inferred from from the line' "scarcity is the gap between our unlimited wants and limited resources" | Whenever we are faced with deciding if a good or service is worth the cost, we are experiencing scarcity. |
| What factor results in never being able to satisfy all of our wants and needs? | Scarcity |
| When economists refer to scarcity, they mean | When economists refer to scarcity, they mean |