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ECON 120 - Quiz 1

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show resources are scarce, opportunity cost, decisions are taken at the margin, decision-makers respond to incentives  
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Principles of economics: interaction of individual choices   show
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show not yes/no, but extra  
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show a situation in which no individual would be better off doing something different  
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Equilibrium: cause   show
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show efficiency may not be in line with fairness  
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Market economy: definition   show
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Centrally-planned economy: definition   show
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Problem with government intervention   show
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Adam Smith   show
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Roles of government   show
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show a simplified representation of a real situation  
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Model: representation   show
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Model: production possibilities frontier: definition   show
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Model: production possibilities frontier: slope   show
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Free trade: why it is not everywhere   show
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show firms and households  
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show produce goods and services using inputs (factors of production)  
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show consume goods and services; own the inputs  
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Positive economics: definition   show
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show concerned with what should be done; influenced by past experience and facts, ethics and moral beliefs  
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show because economists employ different empirical research methods  
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Market: definition   show
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Supply and demand: quantity demanded/supplied: definition   show
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show income, prices of other goods, tastes, expectations, weather  
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Supply and demand: demand: law of demand   show
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show graphical representation of the relationship between the price of a good and its quantity demanded  
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show the horizontal summation of the quantities individually demanded at any given price  
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show right = demand has increased; left = demand has decreased  
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show if its demand increases as the consumer's income goes up  
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show if demand decreases when the consumer's income goes up  
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Supply and demand: demand: demand curve: substitutes: definition   show
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Supply and demand: demand: demand curve: complements: definition   show
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Supply and demand: supply: law of supply   show
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show depicts the quantity supplied of a good or service at different price levels  
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show positively inclined  
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show input prices, technological advance, weather, expectations, number of suppliers  
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show market equilibrium = intersection of supply and demand curves  
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show clearing-market price (equilibrium price) = price at equilibrium  
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show equilibrium quantity = quantity at equilibrium  
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Supply and demand: simultaneous shifts   show
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