Basic Terms
Production
Charts and Graphs
Exchange
Other Stuff
100
The study of human efforts to satisfy unlimited wants with scarce resources
What is Economics
100

All physical items created by people in production.

What is Capital? 

100

What does PPC stands for.

What is production Possibility Curve?

100

The idea that resources are limited and cannot meet people's needs.

What is Scarcity?
100

Economics on the small scale.

What is microeconomics?

200

A basic requirement of survival

What is a need

200

Resources in their rawest form.

What is Land?

200

The point outside of the optimal production curve on a PPC. 

What is a point of impossibility?

200

This happens when there is an overabundance of a product relative to demand. 

What is a Surplus?

200

Economics on the Large Scale.

What is Macroeconomics?

300
the cost of the next best alternative use of money, time or resources
What is opportunity cost
300

The person who takes on the risk of starting a buisness.

What are Entrepreneurs?


300

In Supply and Demand what goes up and what goes down?

Supply to the sky and Demand to the dirt. 

300
The act of buyers and sellers freely and willingly engaging in market transactions
What is voluntary exchange
300

The total worth of a government's economy.

What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product?)

400

A desired thing to benefit everyday life

What is a want

400
The people with all their efforts, abilities, and skills
What is labor
400

What PPF stands for. 

What is Production Possibility Frontier?

400

This is the difference between the price the seller received and how much they were willing to sell it for.

What is the Producer Surplus

400

The repeated cycle of expansion and contraction in the economy.

What is the buisness cycle?

500
Workers perform fewer tasks more frequently
What is division of labor
500
How many goods or services (output) you can create with your limited resources (inputs.)

What is Productivity?

500

Whenever this happens the demand curve on a supply and demand chart moves left. 

What is a shortage?

500

This is the difference between what you are willing to pay and what you actually pay.

What is Consumer Surplus?

500

The market controls productivity and distribution with minimal government interference.

What is free enterprise? 

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