Econ Systems
Econ Princpals
Key Terms
Supply & Demand
Market Structure's
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Interpt.
100

Traditional economies answer the economic questions of what to produce, how to produce it, and for whom by relying on these.

What is custom and tradition?

100

People respond to these in predictable manners.

Incentives
100

This economic system is often times confused as a system of government…

Communism

100

Supply is from the perspective of whom.

What is the supplier/producer ?

100

What is the abbreviation to analyze the market structures of any industry/

N , S , E , C

100

What is equilibrium 

200

The single largest economic system today.

What is Mixed Market Economy?

200

Because we have unlimited wants and desires and limited resources we are forced to make .

What are trade-offs?

200

This term can be described as anything that can be used physically monetarily, or laboriously to help a business.

What is capital?

200

This factor can change market demand by changing the amount of money consumers make.

What is income?

200

In this market structure the top 4 producers control the industry and have some price control

What is an oligopoly 

200


A surplus will drive the price _____ by _____

Down by sales 

300

Command economies answer the economic questions of what to produce, how to produce it, and for whom by relying on this group of people. 

What are the decisions of a powerful rule or central government?

300

When we make a decision, our next best choice is represented best as.

What is opportunity cost?

300

This term describes political philosophy and movement encompassing a wide range of economic and social systems which are characterized by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership.

What is socialism?

300

Tariffs, sin tax’s, and subsidies are all examples of this shifter.

What is government intervention

300

A farmers market is an example of this market structure

Perfect Competition 

300

What is an example of a price ceiling?

Rent Control / Pay Scales / Insurance Out of Pockets

400

Market economies answer the economic questions of what to produce, how to produce it, and for whom by relying on this group of people 

What are producers and consumers?

400

Stonestown, Amazon, a Farmers Market all describe which economic principal

What is markets coordinate trade?

400

The mysterious force that coordinated markets was termed this by economist Adam Smith.

What is “the invisible hand?”

400

Supply may increase or decrease due to this change in the amount of money a supplier has to spend to make their product.

What is cost of inputs?

400

In a monopolistic competition companies vie (fight) for business (customers) through  

different-ion 

400

What is happening to the equilibrium price and quantity in the image?

Price and quantity increases

500

Of the six economic goals discussed in the textbook, market economies are the best at achieving these two.

What is economic efficiency and economic freedom?

500

This image best describes what.

What is the law of diminishing returns/utlilization?

500
Who is the author of the Communist Manifesto 

Who is Karl Marx

500

This demand shifter moves the market demand by changing the price of goods consumers use in place of another good.

Price of Subsititute Goods

500

What are the 3 types of government monopolies? 

What is - patents & copy right, licenses, and franchising(outsourcing) 

500

What is shifting in this visual?

Supply is decreasing and quantity 

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