PPF, Economic Spectrum, Intro to Econ
Economic Indicators and Aggregate Supply and Demand
Fiscal and Monetary Policies
Market Structures and types of Businesses; Supply and Demand
International Trade and Comparative and Absolute Advantage
100

These are the 3 basic economic questions and how they are answered in each society.

What are we going to make?  How are we going to make it?  Who is going to get what we make?  We answer these questions based on what we value. 

100

This is the order of the business cycle

Expansion, peak, recession, trough 

100

These are the two tools of Fiscal policy and how they are used to fix a recession. 

Lower taxes, raise government spending

100

This type of merger is between 2 businesses involved in different stages of production towards the same product. 

vertical 

100

When the value of a currency falls relative to another nations currency, it is called this,

depreciation

200

This is how we illustrate full employment, inefficiency, and economic growth on a PPF Curve. 

full employment: a point on the curve

inefficiency: a point inside the curve

economic growth: a rightward shift of the ppf curve

200

These are the equations for GDP

C+I+G+XN

or 

R+W+i+P

200

These are the 3 functions of money. 

Unit of account, medium of exchange, and a store of value 
200

This is the market structure for when a few firms control a majority of the market. This is an example of one. 

Oligopoly; Example: airlines, cell phone companies, auto industry 

200

This is the definition of comparative advantage and the saying of how to to the math 

lowest opportunity cost, other goes over 

300

These are the 5 factors of production that shift the PPF curve.

Land, Labor, Capital, Entrepreneurship, Human Capital

300

An American company, like Ford, owns a factory in Tokyo, Japan. The value of goods and services produced in the factory in Japan is apart of this country's GDP and this country's GNP.

GDP: Japan

GNP: The US

300

These are the 4 tools of Monetary Policy and how they are used to fix a recession. 

buy bonds, lower the discount rate, lower the required reserve ratio, and lower the interest on reserve balance

300

These are the shifters of Demand of an individual product

Income, Tastes, Substitute goods, Expectations, Complement goods, number of buyers 

300

Germany places a block on all imports from Sri Lanka, that is the type of trade barrier they have

embargo 

400

This is who controls the resources in a command (communist) economy, mixed (socialist) economy, and market (free enterprise) economy 

Command: the government

Mixed: some govt, some individuals

Market: the individuals 

400

These are the 4 types of unemployment with examples. 

Frictional, Structural, Seasonal, Cyclical 

Examples...

400

This is who controls Monetary Policy and how many regions it has 

The Federal Reserve, 12 

400

This is what creates a surplus and this is what creates a shortage.

Surplus: price is set above equilibrium (price floor)

Shortage: price is set below equilibrium (price ceiling)

400

When a nation imports more than it exports, economists say it has this 

a trade deficit

500

The government of a country must make a decision between increasing military spending and subsidizing wheat farmers. This kind of decision is a called this:

Guns vs. Butter

500

These are the Shifters of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply 

AD: C, I, G, XN

AS: N, I, T, E, P 

500
This is what the laffer curve looks like and what it shows

the higher the taxes, the more govt revenue up to a point, and after that more taxes will bring in less money for the government as people work less and make less income to tax 

500

This type of business is owned by one person, This type of business is owned by multiple people who share responsibility, and this type of business is owned by shareholders of stock. 

Sole proprietorship

partnership

corporation

500

This is the opportunity cost for each country to make Grapes. 

Switzerland: 1 chocolate

Brazil: 1/3 Chocolate