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Economics
12th Grade
12/16/2012

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what is productive resources?
Definition
anything a business uses to add value.
EX:land labor capital and skillz
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what is economics
Definition
social science that analyzes the production distribution and consumption of goods and services
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define opportunity cost
Definition
The value of the next highest valued alternative.
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what is a command market?
Definition
controlled by federal market
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what is market economy?
Definition
ecisions and the pricing of goods and services are guided solely by the aggregate interactions of a country's citizens
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what is mixed economy
Definition
economic system in which both the state and private sector direct the economy
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define productivity:
Definition
measure of the efficiency of production
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define macroeconomics.
Definition
behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole, rather than individual markets
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define GDP and give the formula
Definition
gross-domestic-product. C+I+G+(X-M)
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what is a recession
Definition
A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP
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define stagflation
Definition
Persistent high inflation combined with high unemployment and stagnant demand in a country's economy.
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what is the 4 stages in the business cycle
Definition
Prosperity Phase : Expansion or Boom or Upswing of economy.
Recession Phase : from prosperity to recession (upper turning point).
Depression Phase : Contraction or Downswing of economy.
Recovery Phase : from depression to prosperity (lower turning Point).
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3 types of unemployment
Definition
structural, cynical, and frictional.
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define fiscal policy
Definition
a government policy for dealing with the budget (especially with taxation and borrowing).
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what is microeconomics
Definition
The part of economics about single factors and the effects of individual decisions.
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define price elasticity?
Definition
is a measure used in economics to show the responsiveness, or elasticity, of the quantity demanded of a good or service
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what is a monopoly?
Definition
single seller of a product
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what is oligopoly
Definition
shared by a small number of producers or sellers.
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what is an monopolistic competition
Definition
Monopolistic competition is a form of imperfect competition where many competing producers sell products that are differentiated
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what is law of supply
Definition
how much needs to be supplied
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what is law of demand
Definition
how much the people want to buy it.
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