Unit 1 AP econ Witt

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Choices

needed due to scarcity

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Opportunity cost

MOST IMPORTANT loss when making a decision

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Trade offs

ALL the things you’re losing from making a specific choice

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Price

How much the BUYER pays

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Cost

How much a PRODUCER pays to create a good

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Normative economic statements

NON facts, speculative statements

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Positive economic statements

FACT statements

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Consumer Goods

Goods that are produced for a buyer (IE sandwich)

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Capital Goods

Goods used to produce other goods (IE panini press for making Paninis)

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Allocative efficiency

Efficently making “what the people” want

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Productive efficiency

Making the max amount of products

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Law of increasing opportunity cost

When the opportunity cost increases with every good you increase the production of.

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absolute advantage

producing more of a good (period.)

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Comparative advantage

having a lower opportunity cost for producing the same amount of goods

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Resource market

Market for companies to buy goods (amazon)

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Product markets

For consumers to buy from (target)

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Output method

Output other over

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input method

input other under

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Shifters of the PPC

Change in resource quantity or quality, change in technology, change in trade

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Free market example

US

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centrally planned market example

North Korea

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