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Demand and Market demand Schedule:
Supply and Market Supply Schedule:
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Demand
- Price QD
- $0.50 5
- $1.00 4
- $1.50 3
- $2.00 2
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Show effect of elasticity and relationship to total revenue:
- Elastic Demand:
- As the price is lowered...total revenue rises.
- As the price is raised ...total revenue falls
- Inelastic Demand:
- As the price is lowered...Total revenue falls
- As the price is raised...total revenue rises.
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3 factors of production:
Land, labor, and capital.
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2 types of capital:
Human and Physical
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How do resources and technology relate?
Improvements in technology allow an economy to produce more output from the same or smaller quantity of inputs, or resources.
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2 advantages of Free Market:
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4 problems of a command economy:
- Poor quality of goods
- no incentive
- Lack of choices
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List the basics of free enterprise
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Whats the 3 roll's of the government in free market?
- 1. employment
- 2. Growth
- 3. Stability
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3 outcomes policy makers try to reach in economy
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what is technology progress in economy and how is it important?
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what are 4 types of cash transfers?
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what are 2 types of in-kind benefits?
- 1. Food Stamps
- 2. Cash-AID
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What are 2 types of health insurance provided by the US and what are the differences?
- 1. Medicare - used for the elderly
- 2. Madicade - used for low income person
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State the Law of Demand
Consumers buy more of a good when its price decreases and Less of a good when the price increases.
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Causes of the demand curve:
Shifts:
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2 factors that effect elasticity:
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Was the first bank successful in bringing order?
no, it didn't last long
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1 issue that was caused by free banking:
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2 issues in banking during the depression:
1. You couldn't pay back loans
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What was one thing that Roosevelt did when he reformed the banks?
Bank holiday
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what are 2 functions of financial institutions?
- 1. Issue loans
- 2. Store money
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what are 2 types of financial institutions?
- 1. Commercial banks
- 2. Savings Banks
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what are 4 categories of final goods and services for the expenditure aproach?
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what are 2 things not acounted for GDP?
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What are 4 phases of the business cycle?
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what are the levels of severity during a contraction?
recession, depression, stagflation
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what are 2 examples of financial intermediaries?
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What are 3 components of Bonds?
- 1. coupon rate
- 2. par value
- 3. maturity
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what are 5 types of bonds?
1.
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why was buying stocks on margin an issue?
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what is the danger of speculation?
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what is inflation? and its effect on purchasing power?
people on fixed incomes are more effected by it.
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what are 2 limits on power to tax?
- 1. you can't tax exports
- 2. you can't tax in between states
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what are 2 characteristics of good tax?
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what are 4 causes of poverty?
- 1. lack of education
- 2. lack of skill
- 3. cultural or racial backgrounds
- 4. change in household
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what are the 3 causes of inflation?
- 1. demand pool
- 2. cost push
- 3. raise spiral
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What is price healing and price floor?
graph rent control:
list the positive and negative things
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how can you tell if minimum wage is above or below equalibrium?
if its above then there are more workers.
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what are 3 advantages of price?
- 1. free
- 2. price incentive
- 3. flexible
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what is the black market?
its were goods are bought and sold illegaly
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what is the law of supply? and what are 2 things combined to make it?
- Law of supply is the tendency of suppliers to offer more of a good at a hire price.
- relationship between elasticity and time
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what is fixed cost and veriable cost?
- fixed cost: doesn't change
- veriable cost: goes up or down
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what is the effect on input cost on supply?
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what are 3 government influences on supply?
- 1. subsidies
- 2. taxes
- 3. regulations
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what is the level of price control for perfect competition?
there is no price control
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what are 4 conditions of perfect competetion?
- 1. many buyers and sellers participate in the market
- 2. sellers offer identical products
- 3. buyers and sellers are well informed about products
- 4. sellers are able to enter and exit the market freely
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what are 2 examples of bariers to entry?
- 1. start up costs
- 2. technology
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what is a monopoly?
when all the markets are owned and controlled by one person
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what is an oligopoly?
when the market is controlled by a few large firms
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what are 3 conditions that have to be in place for price descrimination to work?
- 1. some market power
- 2. distinct customer groups
- 3. difficult resale
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what are 2 conditions of monopolistic competition?
- 1. many firms
- 2. few artificial barriers to entry
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what are 2 forms of non-price competition?
- 1. physical characteristics
- 2. location
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what are 3 practices of ologopolies that concern government?
- 1. predator pricing
- 2. bariers to entry
- 3. collusion
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what are cartels?
they are a form of organization of producers that agree to coordinate prices and production.
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what are 2 industries that were deregulated in the 70's and 80's?
the airline industry and banking industry
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what are the 4 types of unemployment?
- frictional unemployment
- seasonal unemployment
- structural unemployment
- cyclical unemployment
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what are 2 examples of mandatory spending?
- 1. social security
- 2. medicare
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what are 2 descresionary spendings?
- 1. education
- 2. scientific research
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what are 2 types of budgets that states have?
- 1. operating budgets
- 2. capital budgets
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what are 3 limits of fiscal policies?
- 1. difficulty of changing speding levels
- 2. predicting the future
- 3. delayed results
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what are 2 examples of automatic stabilizers?
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what role did the government have in economy in Keyne's view?
their role was spending
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what happened with government spending with Regan, Bush and Clinton?
their spending went up
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what tax cuts did Kennedy propose? did it work?
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what did the laffner curve do?
shows that increasing tax rates beyond a certain point makes it harder to raise further tax revinue.
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why is creating money an issue?
because it leads to extremely high inflation
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Who is national debt owned by?
- 1.foreign investers
- 2. US investers
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what is the difference between deficits and debts?
debt is a total of all deficits
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what are 3 limits of fiscal policy?
- 1. delayed results
- 2. consensus
- 3. predicting the future
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what are 3 sectors of keynesian theory?
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show the change in CD market:
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what are 3 advantages of a sole proprietorship?
- 1. ease of start up
- 2. full control
- 3. sole receiver of profit
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what are 3 disadvantages of a sole proprietorship?
- 1. completely liable
- 2. not much resources
- 3. lack of permanence
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what are 2 advantages of a partnership?
- 1. ease of start up
- 2. shared decision making/ specialization
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what are 2 disadvantages of a partnership?
- 1. unlimited liability
- 2. potential for conflict
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what are 2 advantages of incorporation?
- 1. Low liability due to cooporate veil
- 2. transferable info
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what are 2 disadvantages of incorporation?
- 1. expensive start up
- 2. requirements and regulations
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what are 3 advantages of franchizes?
- 1. built in reputation
- 2. standardized quality
- 3. good managment and training
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what are 3 types of mergers?
- 1. vertical
- 2. horizontal
- 3. conglomerates
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what are 3 disadvantages of franchises?
- 1. expensive to start up
- 2. strict guidelines
- 3. limited product line
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what are 3 main catagories of cooperative consumers?
- 1. personal
- 2. service cooperative
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what are 3 requirements for someone to be employed?
- 1. they would have had to work atleast one hour pay in the last week
- 2. worked 15 or more hours without pay in a family business or farm
- 3. held jobs but did not work due to illness, labor disputes or bad weather.
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what is a full time student employed?
unemployed
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what is the shift of US economy from manufaturing to the service industry?
- our prodution of services is increasing faster than our production of goods.
- ex: financial services, online services, healthcare and desktop publishing.
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what are 5 examples of the shift in the labor force in the 1960's?
30% of women were in the work force, in 2010 there are 62.2%
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what are 2 benefits to temp employees?
- 1. easier to fire
- 2. usually paid less
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what happened to the cost of workers?
the cost of benefits went up
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what are 4 catagories of skill levels?
- 1. unskilled
- 2. semi skilled
- 3. skilled
- 4. professional
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what are 2 factors that effect the number of jobs people are willing to do?
1.
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what are 4 elements of collective bargaining?
- 1. wages and benefits
- 2. working conditions
- 3. job security
- 4.
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what is the difference between mediation and arbitration?
Mediation- is when a neutral mediator meets at both sides to find a solution.
Arbitration- is when a 3rd party reviews the cass and imposes a decision when legaly binding for both sides.
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what are 3 uses of money?
- 1. medium of exchange
- 2. unit of account
- 3. store value
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what are 3 characteristics of money?
- 1. durability
- 2. portability
- 3. exceptability
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What are the 3 sources of money's value?
- 1.Commodity money
- 2. representative money
- 3. fiat money
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What are the 2 views on banking?
- 1. The federalists who were lead by Jefferson supported the central banking system.
- 2. the anti-federalists who were lead by Hamilton and they supported the state banking system.
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