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Economics   Social science,concerned with how ppl + firms + governments choose to allocate scarce recources  
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Opportunity cost   value of resource in its next best use. Ex. Cost of free checking  
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Rational behavior   when facing options, choose the one you think is best.  
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Importance of Marginal analysis   value/cost of next unit. Ex. airplane seat  
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Externality   someone not involved in transaction that suffers or benefits ex.basketball hoop  
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Cost disease of personal services   productivity (output produced) has stayed the same. Productivity in others sectors determine wages even in sectors with no productivity gain. (higher income, higher opportunity cost)  
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Trade off between output and equality   When operating efficiently, policies that stimulate growth make distribution less equal, policies designed to lead to more equality slows growth.  
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Economic model   simplification of an economic activity, either in graphs, or words, used to explore the direction of resource allocations  
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X and Y are positively related   same direction, x goes up, so does y.Slope is positive  
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X and Y are negatively related   opposite directions, x goes up, y goes down. Slope is negative  
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Linear form of function   straight line, no exponents. Y=ax+b, a is vertical, b=slope of line (rate of change)  
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Intersection   set y's equal to each other  
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Resources   land, labor, materials (things used to make something else, but are used up), capital (used repeatedly to make something else)  
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economic vs financial capital   money, stocks, CDs, bonds, etc. are not economic capital  
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depreciation   subtraction from the capital stock  
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Investment   additions to the capital stock  
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Market system   resources are allocated via no interactions of individual agents and firms. All acting in their own best interest  
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Market economy   resources go to the agents that value them the most in terms of money (value depends on needs, wants and income)  
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quantity demanded   how much buyers want to (and have the means to) buy at a given price  
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demand   all of the quantities demanded at the different prices, holding everything else equal  
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demand vs. quantity demanded   quantity demanded changes when the price changes, demand doesn't  
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demand curves   downward sloping, price of quantity demanded are inversely related  
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Law of demand   as price goes up, quantity demanded goes down  
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normal good   as income goes up, demand goes up. Income and demand move in the same direction  
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Inferior good   as income increases, demand increases  
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Complements   if price of complement goes up/down, demand of your good goes down/up  
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Substitutes   if price of substitute goes up/down, demand for your good goes up/down (ex.coke, pepsi)  
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Giffen good   violates law of demand (as price goes up, quantity demanded goes up)  
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Market demand is   the horizontal sum of all of the individuals' demand curve  
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quantity supplied   amount sellers want to and are legally able to sell at a given price  
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market supply   horizontal sum of individual supply curves  
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supply curves   slope upwards  
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