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What are the steps of circular flow of goods and services?
1. Households sell resources
2. Firms pay households for their resources
3. Firms turn resources into goods
4. Households give payments to businesses.
What do households (consumers) and businesses (sellers) have to give to the government?
Households (consumers) have to give resources and businesses (sellers) have to give goods.
What do governments do in exchange of goods and resources from consumers and sellers?
Governments pay consumers with income and payments to sellers. But governments also collect taxes from consumers and sellers and provide services to both.
What is money?
Anything that serves as a medium of exchange, unit of account, store of account.
There are 3 functions of money, what are they?
1. Medium Exchange
2. Unit of account
3. Store of account
Define 3 functions of money.
1) Medium Exchange: anything that determines value during exchange of goods and services.
2) Unit of account: allow comparison of value of different goods and services.
3) Store of account: money keeps its value if your hold on it.
Name all of the characteristics of money.
1. Durability
2. Portability
3. Divisibility
4. Uniformity
5. Limited supply
6. Acceptabilty
Define all the characteristics of money.
1) Durability: strong enough to hold up to lots of use.
2) Portability: easily carried around
3) Divisibility: easily divided into smaller units.
4) Uniformity: must be uniform (the same) for what they will buy.
5) Limited Supply: rare and easily controlled supple of money.
6) Acceptability: everyone must agree to accept it.
There are 3 types of money. Name them.
1. Commodity Money
2. Representative Money
3. Fiat Money
What is commodity money?
Money gets its value from its physical form.
(What it is made out of)
What is Representative money?
Receipt or certificate that can be traded for a certain amount of a physical item such as gold, silver, oil, water, and food.
What is Fiat money?
Money that gets its value from government decree.
Explain the Law of Demand.
As prices fall, the quantity needed of a good and service will rise.
- P (Price) & QD (Quantity Demand) have an inverse or opposite relationship.
Name 6 reasons that demand curves will shift.
1. Income
2. Population - # of consumers
3. Prices of substitute (switch) goods.
4. Prices of complementary goods.
5. Consumers future price expectations.
6. Tastes and Preferences.
Name 5 determinants of supply.
1. Cost of Resources
2. Number of Supplies
3. Producers future price expectations
4. Technology
5. Taxes & Subsidies