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An excess of quantity demanded over quantity supplied |
Shortage |
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An excess of quantity supplied over quantity demanded |
Surplus |
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What is one of the concerns of macroeconomics |
Economic growth |
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Consumptions to maximize our utilities |
Goods |
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What is the highest valued alternative that is sacrificed for our own success? |
Opportunity cost |
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Require decision makers to evaluate the benefit of one extra unit of something, involve a purposeful evaluation of the best decision possible |
Marginal thinking |
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The study of the decisions people and businesses make regarding the allocation of resources |
Microeconomics |
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The field of economics that studies the behavior of the economy as whole |
Macroeconomics |
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How economists characterize, scarcity, choice and opportunity cost |
Fundamental of economic problems |
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Is one that better serves the objective of the decision maker |
Optimum choice |
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The different combinations of various goods and services given the available resources and existing technology |
Production possibility frontier |
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What is the benefit of specialization? |
Through the specialization, the company can limit itself to the production of one item or one work |
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Positive incentives |
Incentives that encourage action by offering rewards for payments |
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Economics is the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth |
Economy |
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The study of the world as market including all factors influencing the flow of money |
Economics |
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The main approaches of economics |
Classical and Keynesian |
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The ability to produce a certain good or service at a lower opportunity cost than another |
Comparative advantage |
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The absence of waste |
Efficiency |
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Quantity I. Which the difference demanded and quantity supplied is zero |
Equilibrium |
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When the quantity supplied will exceed the quantity demanded |
Surplus |
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An increase increase in the amount of goods and services produced by an economy over time |
Economic growth |
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Four factors of production |
1. Labor 2. Land 3. Capital 4. Entrepreneurs |
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Five foundations of economics |
1. Incentives 2. Trade-offs 3. Opportunity cost 4. Marginal thinking 5. The principle that trade creates value |
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Fundamental of Economic problem |
Scarcity, choice and opportunity cost |