The Basics
PPC
Comparative Advantage
Cost Benefit &
Marginal Analysis
Marginal Analysis
General Knowledge
100
The social science concerned with the efficient use of scarce resources to achieve maximum satisfaction of economic wants.
What is Economics
100
This results in a straight PPC and means that the resources needed to produce each good are easily adaptable or substitutable.
What is constant opportunity costs.
100
The producer that can produce the most output OR requires the least amount of inputs (resources) has...
An absolute advantage.
100
Economic Cost is __________________ costs and ___________________ costs.
Explicit and Implicit
100
In terms of value, this country exports the most food
USA
200
The 4 Factors of Production
Capital, Entrepreneurship, Land, and Labor
200
This is the concept that as you produce more of any good the forgone production of another good will increase.
What is Increasing Opportunity Cost.
200
If Mike can make 2 surfboards per hour or 10 bikes per hour and Joe can produce 4 surfboards per hour and 12 bikes. What is Joe's opportunity cost for 1 surfboard?
3 bikes
200
Benefit Maximization occurs when
_______ = _______.
MB = MC
200
This former president is on the $2 bill
Thomas Jefforson
300
The concept that society has unlimited wants but limited resources
What is Scarcity?
300
The Country of Econland produces both cars and computers. Econland is hit with a tsunami which destroys the countries major powerplants. Will this affect their production possibilities curve, and how?
Yes, Econland's PPC with shift inward (to the left) because of the decrease in the quantity of resources.
300
Panama can produce 100 bananas and 50 sugarcane.
Honduras can produce 160 bananas and 40 sugarcane.
What is Panama’s opportunity cost for producing one unit of bananas? What is Honduras’s opportunity cost for producing one unit of sugarcane?
Panama's per unit opportunity cost for one banana is 1/2 sugarcane.
Honduras's per unit opportunity cost for one sugarcane is 4 bananas.
300
What is the formula for the Utility Maximizing Rule?
MUx/Px =MUy/Py
300
This friendly creature is the largest rodent on earth
400
The study of small economic units such as individuals, firms, and markets.
What is Microeconomics?
400
Oakbrookville produces both pizza and tacos. Suddenly, all of the students decide that pizza is inhumane and they will not longer eat it. Does this shift Oakbrookville's PPC? If so, how?
No, Oakbrookville's PPC will not shift. A change in demand does not shift the PPC; it causes a slide along the curve toward tacos and away from pizza production.
400
Panama can produce 100 bananas and 50 sugarcane.
Honduras can produce 160 bananas and 40 sugarcane.
What would be the mutually beneficial terms of trade? 1 sugarcane for...
Mutually acceptable terms if trade would be 1 sugarcane for any number between 2 and 4 bananas
400
When using cost-benefit analysis a government will decide to build a bridge only if this determination has been made
Total benefits > total costs
400
This country located on the horn of Africa is home to Lake Assal, the lowest point in Africa and one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth, 10 times saltier than the ocean.
Djibouti
500
A centrally controlled economy where the gov't makes all decisions
What is a Command Economy?
500
These changes cause the PPC curve to shift
1. Change in resource quantity or quality
2. Change in Technology
3. Change in Trade (allows more consumption)
500
Rome can produce 500 units of wine and 400 units of wheat.
Carthage can produce 200 units of wine and 300 units of wheat.
Draw a PPC graph using those production numbers. Which country has the comparative advantage in wheat? Which country should specialize in the production of wine?
Carthage has a comparative advantage in wheat.
Rome will specialize in wine because they have a comparative advantage (lower opportunity cost).
500
The price of shirts is $10 and shorts are $20. If you only had $100, what combination of shirts and shorts would maximize your utility
2 shirts, 4 shorts
500
This Russian author struggled with a lifelong gambling addiction and even wrote some of his works, like The Gambler, to pay off his debts. He famously wrote a novel in just 26 days under intense pressure to meet a publishing deadline.
Fyodor Dostoevsky