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Economics Chapter 7

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Demand   The amount of goods and services that the consumers are able and willing to buy at a possible price.  
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Supply   The amount of goods and services that producers are able and willing to sell at various prices.  
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Voluntary exchange   A transaction in which a buyer and seller exercise their economic freedom by working out their own terms/  
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Law of demand   Economic rule stating that the quantity demand and price moved into opposite directions.  
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Quantity demanded   The amount of goods or services that consumer is willing and able to purchase at a specific price.  
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Real income effect   Economic rule stating individuals cannot keep buying the quantity of products if the price rises.  
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Subsitution effect   Economic rule stating that if two items satisfy the same need and the price of one rises, people will buy more of others.  
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Utility   The ability of any good or service that satisfies the consumers wants.  
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Marginal utility   An additional amount of satisfaction.  
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Law of diminishing marginal utility   Rules stating that the additional satisfaction gets from purchasing one more unit of a product will lessen with each additional unit.  
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Demand schedule   Table showing qualities, demand at different possible prices.  
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Demand curve   Downward sloping line that shows in graph form the quality demand at each possible price.  
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Elasticity   Economic concept dealing with consumers responsiveness to an increase or decrease in the price of a product.  
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Price elasticity of demand   Economic concept that deals with how much demand varies according to change in prices.  
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Elastic demand   Situation in which a given rise of full in a products price greatly effects the amount that people are willing to buy.  
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Law of supply   Economic rule stating that price and quantity supplied more in the same direction.  
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Quantity supplied   Amount of a good or service that a producer is willing and able to supply at a specific price.  
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Supply schedule   Table showing quantities supplied at different possible prices.  
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Supply curve   Upward sloping line that shows in graphs form the quantities supplied at each possible price.  
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Technology   The use of science to develop new products and new methods for producing and distributing goods and services.  
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Law of diminishing returns   Economic rule that says as more units of a factor of production are added to other factors of production after some points total output continues to decrease.  
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Equilibrium price   The price at which the amount producers are willing to supply is equal to the amount consumers are willing to buy.  
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Shortage   Situation in which the quantity demand is greater than the quantity supplied at the current price.  
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Surplus   situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded at current price.  
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Price ceiling   A legal maximum price that may be charged for a particular good or service.  
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Rationing   The distribution of goods and series based on something other than the price.  
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Black Market   Underground or illegal market in which goods are traded at prices above their legal maximum price or in which illegal goods are sold.  
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Price floor   A legal minimum price below which a good or service may not be sold.  
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