Microeconomics
Currencies of the World
Macroeconomics
Economic Schools of Thought
Luck of the Irish
100

The additional satisfaction from one more unit

What is marginal utility?

100

This cryptocurrency founded in 2008 was adoped as a legal currency in El Salvador.

What is Bitcoin?

100

The total value of all final goods and services produced in a country.

What is GDP?

100

This school, associated with Adam Smith, emphasizes free markets and the “invisible hand”

What is Classical economics?

100

St Patrick's Day is typically associated with this country.

Ireland

200

A cost that does not change with output 

What is a fixed cost?

200

This is the last year that the US penny was minted.

What is 2025?

200

When a country imports more than it exports.

What is a trade deficit?

200

This economist argued that insufficient demand can lead to prolonged unemployment.

Who is John Maynard Keynes?

200

This is the capital of Ireland.

What is Dublin?

300

Goods often bought together, like coffee and sugar.

What are complementary goods?

300

This country’s currency is called the yuan (or renminbi).

What is China

300

A situation with high inflation and high unemployment.

What is stagflation?

300

Under this system, countries sought to accumulate wealth by maximizing gold and silver reserves.

What is mercantilism?

300

This is the motto of the Cereal Brand "Lucky Charms"

What is "They're magically delicious!"

400

The market structure with differentiated products and many firms.

What is monopolistic competition?

400

This is the official term for countries that have adopted the euro as their legal tender is (Hint: it is not the European Union).

What is the Eurozone? (Or Euro Area)

400

This type of unemployment occurs when workers are between jobs.

What is frictional unemployment?

400

This school rejects the idea that markets operate independently of social and political systems.

What is Institutional economics?

400

St Patrick was from here.

What is Britain?

500

The loss of total surplus due to a tax.

What is deadweight loss?

500

This is the oldest modern currency still in circulation.

What is the British pound sterling?

500

This curve displays the trade-off between inflation and unemployment in the short run.

What is the Phillip's curve.

500

This school argues that people do not always act rationally and are influenced by biases.

What is Behavioral economics?

500

This is the traditional language of Ireland.

What is Gaeilge?