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What describes absolute advantage in production?
What describes absolute advantage in production?
- A producer that can produce the most output with the least resources (correct)
- The process of producing goods at the lowest variable cost
- A producer that can minimize the price of goods sold
- The ability to produce more than one type of good simultaneously
What is allocative efficiency?
What is allocative efficiency?
- Maximizing output without considering consumer needs
- Producing goods regardless of consumer demand
- When goods are produced at the lowest cost possible
- The best combination of goods produced according to consumer preferences (correct)
What is the fundamental economic problem?
What is the fundamental economic problem?
- How to increase production to meet unlimited wants
- How to trade effectively in international markets
- How to allocate scarce resources given unlimited wants (correct)
- How to regulate prices in factor markets
What is the economic reward for capital?
What is the economic reward for capital?
Which statement correctly defines comparative advantage?
Which statement correctly defines comparative advantage?
What economic reward do land resources typically provide?
What economic reward do land resources typically provide?
What best describes the law of demand?
What best describes the law of demand?
Which of the following is NOT a factor of production?
Which of the following is NOT a factor of production?
What does the law of supply indicate about the relationship between price and quantity supplied?
What does the law of supply indicate about the relationship between price and quantity supplied?
Which of the following statements correctly describes a normative statement?
Which of the following statements correctly describes a normative statement?
What is defined as the highest valued option foregone when making a decision?
What is defined as the highest valued option foregone when making a decision?
What does Pareto efficiency imply regarding resource allocation?
What does Pareto efficiency imply regarding resource allocation?
Which type of tax increases marginal rates as an individual's income increases?
Which type of tax increases marginal rates as an individual's income increases?
What is the primary focus of microeconomics?
What is the primary focus of microeconomics?
What does a Production Possibility Curve (PPF) illustrate?
What does a Production Possibility Curve (PPF) illustrate?
Which of the following describes a regressive tax?
Which of the following describes a regressive tax?
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Economic Concepts and Definitions
- Absolute Advantage: A producer's ability to generate the highest output or utilize the least inputs effectively.
- Allocative Efficiency: Occurs when economic activities yield the optimal mix of goods and services, aligning with consumer preferences.
- Basic Economic Problem: Centers on allocating limited resources to meet infinite human wants.
Factors of Production
- Capital: Represents stock assets utilized in production, including buildings and machinery. The economic reward for capital is interest.
- Enterprise: Economic reward is profit. Involves organizing production factors and includes risks taken by entrepreneurs.
- Land: Comprises all environmental resources (both renewable and non-renewable) with rent as its economic reward.
- Labour: Refers to individuals available for producing goods, measured by attributes such as skills and education; rewarded through wages.
Economic Principles
- Comparative Advantage: Occurs when a producer has a lower opportunity cost, promoting trade based on specialization in cost-effective goods.
- Opportunity Cost: Represents the highest-valued alternative forgone when making a decision.
- Law of Demand: Establishes an inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded.
- Law of Supply: Demonstrates a direct relationship between price and quantity supplied.
- Law of Increasing Opportunity Cost: Suggests that as production of one good increases, the opportunity cost of producing an additional unit rises.
Market Types
- Factor Markets: Platforms for trading the primary factors of production: capital, enterprise, and land.
- Goods Market: Where capital and consumer goods are exchanged, including services.
Efficiency Concepts
- Productive Efficiency: Achieved when all production factors are utilized to their fullest capacity.
- Pareto Efficiency: Indicates a situation where one person cannot improve without making another worse off, represented by any point on the Production Possibility Frontier (PPF).
Taxation Types
- Progressive Tax: Tax rates increase with higher income levels, affecting wealthier individuals more significantly.
- Regressive Tax: Takes a larger percentage from low-income earners, putting a heavier burden on them.
Economic Sectors
- Private Sector: Comprises businesses and individuals managing their economic activities.
- Public Sector: Governed by government entities controlling various economic operations.
Other Economic Terms
- Scarcity: Conditions where produced goods and services are insufficient to meet all human demands.
- Substitutes: Goods that, when the price of one increases, see an increase in demand for the other.
- Complements: Goods negatively correlated; an increase in one’s price leads to decreased demand for the other.
- Transfers Payments: Government actions redistributing income, such as welfare and social security payments.
- Positive Statement: Testable claims about economic conditions (e.g., higher interest rates will reduce house prices).
- Normative Statement: Subjective opinions or value judgments that cannot be scientifically tested.
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