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Definition
Microeconomics   Individual markets  
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Macroeconomics   Economy as a whole  
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Inflation   Rate of price increase  
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Laissez Faire   Free market  
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Utility   The value of a good/service - Total satisfaction from consuming it  
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Efficiency   All goods and FOPS in an economy are allocated to their most valuable uses  
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Scarcity   Unlimited wants, limited FOPS  
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Market   Where buyers and sellers meet to facilitate transactions  
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Monopoly   Market structure where a single seller/producer is in a dominant position of a industry/sector  
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Subsidy   Direct/indirect payment to individuals or firms from the government/targeted tax cut  
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Invisible hand   Metaphor for unseen forces that move the free market economy  
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Command economy   Planned economy, central government controls the means of production  
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Taxes   Mandatory payment or charge collected by local, state and national governments from individuals or businesses to cover costs of government funded goods/services  
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Interest   Price you pay to borrow money or the return earned on an investment  
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Actual output   Refers to current level of production  
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Potential output   Potential production depending on highest level of efficiency  
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GDP   Gross domestic product - Monetary value of all finished goods/services made within a country during a specific period  
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Circular flow of income   Model of how money moves through society  
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PPC   Production possibilities curve, represents different combinations of two goods produced  
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Behavioral economics   Relies on experiments and evidence of consumer behaviorq  
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Factor payments   Land --> Rent Labour --> Wages Capital --> Interest Entrepreneurship --> Profit  
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Opportunity cost   Opportunity lost  
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Leakages   Withdrawal of income from the flow: Savings, taxes, imports  
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Injections   Introduction of income into the flow: Investment, government spending, exports  
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Leakages > Injections   Economy shrinks  
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Leakages < Injections   Economy grows  
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Positive economics   Study of econ. based on scientific methods, models, hypotheses, theories, laws, etc  
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Normative economics   Identifies important econ, problems and prescribes what should be done to solve them  
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Example of P.E   Describe: Economic growth has increased from _ to _ in the last _ Explain: The increase in the price of _ has resulted in _ Predict: _ will happen  
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Example of N.E   Governments should raise taxes to fund new programs  
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Demand   Individual consumer's willingness/ability to buy goods/services at different prices at a specific time period  
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Ceteris paribus   All else being equal  
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Negative causal relationship   Price decreases, demand increases  
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Axes   Price Y --- Demand X  
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Law of demand   States that there is a negative causal relatipnship between a good's price and the quantity demand for it  
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Non price determinants of demand   Changes in income - Tastes and preferences - Future price expectations - Price of related goods - Size of market (Number of consumers)  
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Substitutes   Chocolate / gummy bears - Animal products / plant based products  
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Compliments   Phone / phone case - Fries / ketchup  
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Supply   Individual firm's willingness and ability to produce various quantities of goods/services at different prices during a specific time period  
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Law of supply   States that there is a positive causal relationship between a goods price and its quantity supplied in a particular time period  
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Non price determinants of supply   Subsidies and taxes - Technological advancements - Other related good prices (Joint + competitive) - Resource costs - Expectations of future prices - Size of market (Number of producers)  
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