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1.Economic Principle
Question | Answer |
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Asset | any item possessing value |
Capital | As a factor of production |
Entrepreneur | person who starts his own business |
Factors of Production | land, labor, capital, technology |
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | the total market value of all goods |
Income | money received in exchange for labor |
Labor (Factor of Production) | work or human effort |
Land (Factor of Production) | natural resources |
Lorenz Curve | a graph illustrating income distribution |
Market Share | the percentage of market controlled |
National Income | the total national income from all sources |
Opportunity Costs | the value of the thing sacrificed |
Per Capita Income | national income divided by population |
Personal Distribution of Power | The manner in which the economy's personal ordisposable income is divided among different icome classes or different households or families. |
Production Possibilities Curve | A graphical representation of the alternative combinations of the amounts of two goods or services that an economy can produce by transferring resources from one good or service to the other. |
Productivity | The quality, state, or fact of being able to generate, create,enhance, or bring forth goods and services. |
Profit | earnings after subtracting expenses and costs |
Principle of Scarcity | never adequate resources |
Technology | the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation anduse of technical means and their interrelation with life,society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjectsas industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and purescience. |
Trade off | an exchange that occurs as a compromise |