Fundamental Concepts Economic Systems Forms of Business Organization Demand Supply
100
What are the factors of production?
Land, Capital, labor, entrepreneurs, production
100
What are the types of economic systems in the world?
Traditional, Command, Market, Mixed
100
What is the most common form of business organization in the US?
Sole proprietorship
100
What is Microeconomics?
The part of economic theory that deals with behavior and decision making by individual units like people and firms
100
What can cause a change in supply?
Cost of resources, productivity, technology, taxes and subsidies, expectations, government regulations, and number of sellers
200
What does the Circular Flow diagram represent?
the flow of economic activity from households to firms via product and factor markets
200
What type of economic system is the United States?
Market
200
What a key benefit to forming a partnership?
Ease of management, easy to start, lack of special taxes, easy to find/attract investors, efficient operations, easy to get top talent
200
How is demand illustrated?
Schedules and curves
200
What are the stages of production?
Increasing marginal returns, decreasing marginal returns, negative marginal returns
300
What is the fundamental economic problem?
Scarcity
300
What are the economic and social goals of the US
Economic freedom, efficiency, equity, security, full employment, price stability, economic growth
300
What are the types of mergers?
Vertical, horizontal, conglomerates, multinational
300
What is the law of demand?
Is a rule state that consumer swill buy more of a product at lower prices and less at higher prices.
300
What are the types of costs?
Fixed, variable, total, marginal
400
What is opportunity cost?
The cost of the next best altrernative
400
What are the characteristics of a free enterprise capitalist system?
Economic freedom, voluntary exchange, private property rights, profit motives, competition
400
What is an example of government involvement in economics (US specific)?
FDIC, US Postal Service, TVA
400
What factors can change or alter quantity demanded?
Income, substitutes, compliments, expectations, number of consumers, consumer tastes
400
What is perfect competition?
Where many well-informed and independent buyers and sellers exchange identical products
500
What does the PPF represent?
Opportunity Cost
500
What is the role of the government in the economy?
Consumer, regulator, provider, protector
500
What is role do unions play in our economic system?
Collective bargaining
500
What is demand elasticity?
The extent to which a change in price can cause a change in quantity demanded
500
What is an oligopoly?
A market structure where there are very few large sellers that dominate an industry. It is far from perfect competition.






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