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Economics
12th Grade
01/08/2009

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Term
Complementary Good
Definition
goods and services used together
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Demand
Definition
what consumers want to purchase
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Economic Cost
Definition
payments made to secure resources
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Equilibrium
Definition
where supply and demand set the perfect price and quantity
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Factors of Production
Definition
land, labor, capital, and human capital
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Firms
Definition

places use reasources to buy goods and servivces

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Households
Definition
cell resources buy goods and services
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Income effect
Definition
lower price level increases buying power
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inferior good
Definition
a good that is bought less as as income increases
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Invisable Hand
Definition

Firms and house holds act on their own self interests whuch promotes social good.

 

-Adam Smith

Term
Law of Demand
Definition
an increase in price will decrease the quantity in demand
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Law of Supply
Definition
an increase in price will increase supply
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Market
Definition
where buyers and sellers come together
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Medium of Exchange
Definition
anything excepted for goods or services
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Normal Good
Definition
goods purchased when incomes rise (opposite of inferior good)
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Oppurtunity Cost
Definition
what must be sacrificed to recieve goods or services
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Product Market
Definition
firms sell products to households
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Production Possibilities
Definition
oppurtunity cost between two goods
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Resource
Definition
items that help produce goods and services
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Resource Market
Definition
households sell resources to firms
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Shortage
Definition
the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied
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Substitute Good
Definition
a good or service that can be used in place of another.
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Supply
Definition
amount of goods and services offered at a profit
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Surplus
Definition
the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded
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