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Micro/Macro Economic
Micro/Macro Economics Test Review
Term | Definition |
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Produce | To make a good or provide a service |
Incentives | Actions that encourage or discourage people from doing something |
Price Ceiling | The Maximum price that can be placed on a good or service |
Price Floor | The Minimum price that can be placed on a good or service |
Needs | Goods that are necessities |
Wants | goods that are desired but not needed |
Elasticity | How much of a good demanded or supplied changes when its price changes |
Inelastic demand | When the quantity demanded changes very little when the price changes |
Masimize | to make as large as possible |
revenue | the total income received from an economic action |
Marginal benefit | Change in benefit in response to a specific action |
Marginal cost | the cost associated with one additional unit of production |
Marginal revenue | the income received from selling one additional unit of a good or service |
Profit | income received from an economic action minus the cost of taking the action |
Opportunity | a favorable occasion to complete or participate in something |
Absolute advantage | the ability of one party to produce a good or service at a lower cost than any other competitor |
comparative advantage | the ability of one party to produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than any competitor |
Efficient | completed in the fastest amount of time using the fewest number of resources |
Specialization | The act of limiting the kinds of goods and services produced |
compete | to work toward a goal while attempting to defeat rivals |
Monopolistic competition | a market structure in which many sellers produce the same item but each producer sets its own price and quality without impacting the whole market |
Monoply | a market that has a single supplier of a good or service |
Oligopoly | a market situation that exists when there are few businesses in a marketplace |
Pure competition | a market with many sellers of products, free flow of information and free entry to and exit from the marketplace |
Sovereignty | a controlling influence on a market |
Macroeconomics | the study of economics with a focus on large groups or units such as nations |
aggregate | a total amount |
sector | a subdivision within an economy |
Gross Domestic Product | The value of all final goods & services produced during a specific period of time |
Indicators | data used to evaluate the current and future health of an ecomomy |
Output | the goods and services produced by an economy |
per capita | per person |
offset | something that balances or makes up for something else |
Unemployment | the situation of not having a paid job, or the number of workers without jobs |
growth | increase or enlargement |
income | the money a person earns for providing a service or selling goods |
Ownership | the right to possess something |
Private Property | land or goods owned and used by a person |
Public property | land or goods owned by the government |
wealth gap | the economic difference between rich and poor people |
competition | what happens when two or more parties seek the same prize or benefit |
restrict | to create limits |
regulation | the placing of limits or restrictions on business activity by government |
Free enterprise | An economic system in which there are minimal restrictions on business ownership and activity |