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Economics Final Exam

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show The social science that deals with the study of how people satisfy seemingly unlimited and competing wants with the careful use of scarce resources.  
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Microeconomics   show
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Macroeconomics   show
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What happens when supply increases and demand stays the same (or decreases)?   show
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What happens when demand increases but supply stays the same (or decreases)?   show
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show The equilibrium quantity rises but the change in equilibrium price is ambigous. Both the supply and demand curve shift rightwards.  
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What happens when both supply and demand decrease?   show
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Market Equilibrium   show
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show When the quantity demanded equals the quantity supplied.  
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Needs   show
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Goods   show
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Market Economy   show
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Examples of what, how, and for whom questions   show
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Free Market Economy   show
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Consumer Price Index (CPI)   show
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show A country can produce beyond its production possibility curve. Resources can be used more efficiently. Larger quantites of goods and services can be produced.  
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Conglomerate   show
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Conglomerate goods   show
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show Ownership in companies. The NASDAQ. 401(k)s and individual retirement companies.  
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Financial Capital Account   show
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show The education and experience of the labor force.  
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Subsitiution Effect   show
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Expenditures   show
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Theory of Rational Expectations   show
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show Something a person or company owes, usually a sum of money.  
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Central Bank   show
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Why do banks choose to borrow directly from the Federal Government?   show
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show Branch of the U.S Treasury in charge of collecting taxes.  
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Disposable Personal Income (DPI)   show
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Losses and Business Failures   show
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show An association of all workers in the same industry regardless of the job each worker performs.  
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Modified Union Shop   show
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Theory of Negotiated Wages   show
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show Producers will increase production. i.e. if more of a product/service is needed, producers will meet the need by increasing the availabilty of that product or service.  
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show Increase personal income, increase spending, and economic growth.  
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Inflation   show
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show Condition that results from society not having enough resources to producs all the things that people would like to have.  
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Scarcity Partnership   show
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show A voluntary association of people formed to carry on some kind of economic activity that will benefit its members.  
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When the government funds a project that creates jobs, it does what?   show
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show People face these or alternative choices when they make an economic decision.  
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show The loss of potential gain from other alternatives when one alternative is chosen. i.e. if you stay home to study for an exam, you may miss out on other events.  
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Marginal Utility   show
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show The philosophy that states that the government should not interfere with commerce or trade.  
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Fixed Cost   show
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Comparative Advantage   show
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Law of Comparative Advantage   show
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show The annual plan outlining proposed revenues and expenditures for the coming year prepared by the federal government.  
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show Bond issused by the state and local governments.  
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show Created a beneficiary who receives the benefits (such as assets, income, etc) from the trust. The fund can contain nearly any assets imaginable, including stocks, cash, bonds, property, or other types of financial assets.  
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show The curve that shows how much of the actual distribution of income varies from an equal distribution.  
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Commodity Money   show
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When will income and living standards of a nation increase?   show
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show Characterized by a large number of informed, independent buyers and sellers who exchange identical products.  
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Elasticity   show
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Demand curve   show
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Supply curve   show
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