Perfect Competition
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Macro
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100

Perfectly competitive markets sells this kind of product.

What are identical goods?

100

The total value of all final goods in a domestic economy.

What is gross domestic product?

100

Households gives these to firms in return for wages.

What are labor and entrepreneurship?

100

Scarcity.

What is the problem of having unlimited wants but limited resources?

100

Where price, quantity supplied, and quantity demanded meet.

What is the equilibrium point?

200

Firms have no choice but to do this when it comes to prices.

What is price-taking?

200

It enables people to borrow indirectly from lenders.

What is a financial intermediary?

200
It goes up when GDP and inflation go down.

What is unemployment?

200

The law of supply.

What is it called when prices rise with quantity supplied?

200

The uncompensated impact of one's actions on a bystander.

What is an externality?


300

There is no need for this, because everyone sells identical products.

What is advertising?

300
The reason that you will enjoy your 100th Dr. Pepper less than your first.

What is the law of diminishing marginal utility?

300
The Federal Reserve's favorite tool.

What are interest rates?

300

A mixed economy.

What is an economy with command and market characteristics?

300

What is owed for the use of land.

What is rent?

400

The marginal cost curve will be equal with it.

What is the supply curve?
400

A basket of goods used to measure inflation over time.

What is the consumer price index?

400

It models the business cycle.

What is aggregate demand and supply?

400

Taxation necessarily reduces this in an economy.

What is economic efficiency?

400

Many firms competing with different products.

What is monopolistic competition?

500

In the long run, profits approach this point.

What is zero?

500

It gets around the problem of a double coincidence of wants.

What is money?

500

What happened to the horse when the automobile came along.

What is structural unemployment?

500

What you miss out on when you make a choice.

What is opportunity cost?
500

GDP according to constant prices.

What is "real" GDP?