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Economic 4
Eco Chap4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Consumer Sovereignty | The authority of consumers to determine what is produced through their purchases of goods and services. |
| "Household" | One or more persons who occupy housing. They do not have to be related. |
| "Consumption" | Household spending of Transportation, food, entertainment and other goods and services. |
| Allocation System | The action or process of distributing something |
| Factoids* | 2/3rd's of all businesses are owned by one person. 20% of all businesses are corporation. The US has the highest standard of living in the world. |
| "Import" | Goods/Services brought into the country. Goods come in but money goes out |
| "Export" | Goods sent out. Money comes back |
| Domestic | Internal |
| Trading partners | |
| "Trade Surplus" | The situation that exists when imports are less than exports. |
| "Trade Deficit" | The Situation that exists when imports exceed exports |
| "Net Exports" | The difference between the value of exports and the value of imports. |
| Know Fig. 12 Pg.91 | |
| Factoids | the Majority of US trade, is with industrialized countries. Out of 219 countries world wide, only 28 are industrialized and that is only about 15% of the population, I billion. |