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Chapter 21
Term | Definition |
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Demand | the desire,willingness, and ability to buy a good or service. |
Demand Schedule | table showing quantities demanded at different possible prices. |
Demand Curve | downward-sloping line that graphically shows the quantities demanded at each possible price. |
Law of Demand | the concept that people are normally willing to buy less of a product if the price is high and more of it if the price is low. |
Market Demand | the total demand of all costumers for a product or service. |
Utility | the amount of satisfaction one gets from a good or service. |
Marginal Utility | additional use that is derived from each unit acquired. |
Substitute | a competing product that consumers can use in place of another. |
Complement | product often used with another product. |
Demand Elasticity | measure of responsiveness relating change in quantity demanded to a change in price. |
Supply | the amount of goods and services that producers are able and willing to sell at various prices during a specific time period. |
Law of Supply | the principle that suppliers will normally offer more for sale at higher prices and less at lower prices. |
Supply Schedule | table showing quantities supplied to a change in price. |
Supply Curve | upward-sloping line that graphically shows the quantities supplied at each possible price. |
Profit | the money a business receives for its products or services over and above its costs. |
Market Supply | the total of all the supply schedules of all the businesses that provide the same good or service. |
Productivity | the degree to which resources are being used efficiently to produce goods and services. |
Technology | the methods or processes used to make goods and services. |
Subsidy | a government payment to an individual, business, or group in exchange for certain actions. |
Supply Elasticity | responsiveness of quantity supplied to a change in price. |
Surplus | situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded; situation in which government spends less than it collects in revenues. |
Shortage | situation in which quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied. |
Equilibrium Price | the price at which the amount producers are willing to supply is equal to the amount consumers are willing to buy. |
Price Ceiling | maximum price that can be charged for goods and services, set by the government. |
Price Floor | minimum price that can be charged for goods and services, set by the government. |
Minimum Wage | lowest legal wage that can be paid to most U.S workers. |