Basic Microeconomics (lesson 2)

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Is the process by which resources are transformed into useful forms

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Refer to anything provided by nature or previous generations that can be used directly or indirectly to satisfy human wants.

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What are the three resources?

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What are the three basic questions?

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He developed the theory of comparative advantage to explain the benefits of specialization and free trade.

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According to this theory specialization and free trade will benefit all trading parties, even those that maybe absolutely more efficient producers.

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Is the process of using resources to produce new capital. Capital is the accumulation of the previous investment.

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Are goods produced for present consumption.

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Are goods used to produce other goods or services over time.

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Is a graph that shows all of the combinations of goods and services that can be produced if all of societies resources are user efficiency.

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it has a negative slope that indicates the trade-off that a society faces between two goods.

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The slope of the ppf is also called?

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Resources are either unemployed, or are used inefficiently.

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Is desirable because it yields more of both goods, but it is not attainable given the amount of resources available in the economy.

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Is one of the possible combinations of goods produced when resources are fully and efficiently employed.

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A move along the curve illustrates the concept of opportunity cost.

<p>A move along the curve illustrates the concept of opportunity cost. </p>
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The concave shape of the production possibility frontier curve reflects the low of increasing opportunity costs.

<p>The concave shape of the production possibility frontier curve reflects the low of increasing opportunity costs. </p>
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Is an increase in the total output of the economy. It occurs when a society acquires new resources, or when it learns to produce more using existing resources.

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Outward shifts of the curve represents?

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To increase the production of one good without decreasing the production of the other, the ppf must shift?

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Given scarce resources, how, exactly, do large complex societies go about answering three basic economic questions.

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_____ Are the basic arrangements made by the societies to solve the economic programs.

They include:

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A central government either directly or indirectly sets output targets, incomes and prices.

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Literary from the french: “allow (them) to do.” Individual people and firms pursue their own self interest without any central direction or regulation.

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Is the institutions through which buyers and sellers interact and engage in exchange

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Under a free market system, individual producers must figure out how to plan, organize, and coordinate the production of products and services.

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Is also determined in a decentralized way. The amount that any one household gets depends on its income and wealth.

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Is the amount that a product sells for per unit

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Markets are not perfect, and government plays a major role in all economic systems in order to:

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