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1. Macroeconomics - Correct Answer: the branch of economics that
focuses on broad issues such as growth,
2. Unemployment - Correct Answer: inflation, and trade balance.
3. Microeconomics - Correct Answer: the branch of economics that
focuses on actions of particular agents within the economy, like households,
workers, and business firms
4. Monetary policy - Correct Answer: policy that involves altering the level
of interest rates, the availability of credit in the economy, and the extent of
borrowing
5. Circular flow diagram - Correct Answer: a diagram that views the
economy as consisting of households and firms interacting in a goods and
services market and a labor market
6. Goods and services market - Correct Answer: a market in which firms
are sellers of what they produce and households are buyers
,7. Labor market - Correct Answer: the market in which households sell
their labor as workers to business firms or other employers
8. Theory - Correct Answer: a representation of an object or situation that
is simplified while including enough of the key features to help us
understand the object or situation
9. Command economy - Correct Answer: an economy where economic
decisions are passed down from government authority and where
resources are owned by the government
10.Exports - Correct Answer: products (goods and services) made
domestically and sold abroad
11.Globalization - Correct Answer: the trend in which buying and selling in
markets have increasingly crossed national borders
12.Gross domestic product (GDP) - Correct Answer: measure of the size of
total production in an economy
13.Imports - Correct Answer: products (goods and services) made abroad
and then sold domestically
,14.Market - Correct Answer: interaction between potential buyers and
sellers; a combination of demand and supply
15.Market economy - Correct Answer: an economy where economic
decisions are decentralized, resources are owned by private individuals, and
businesses supply goods and services based on demand
16.Private enterprise - Correct Answer: system where the means of
production (resources and businesses) are owned and operated by private
individuals or groups of private individuals
17.Traditional economy - Correct Answer: typically an agricultural economy
where things are done the same as they have always been done
18.Underground economy - Correct Answer: a market where the buyers
and sellers make transactions in violation of one or more government
regulations
19.Budget constraint - Correct Answer: all possible consumption
combinations of goods that someone can afford, given the prices of goods,
when all income is spent; the boundary of the opportunity set
20.Law of diminishing marginal utility - Correct Answer: as we consume
more of a good or service, the utility we get from additional units of the
good or service tend to become smaller than what we received from earlier
units
, 21.Marginal analysis - Correct Answer: examination of decisions on the
margin, meaning a little more or a little less from the status quo
22.Opportunity cost - Correct Answer: measures cost by what is given up in
exchange; opportunity cost measures the value of the forgone alternative
23.Opportunity set - Correct Answer: all possible combinations of
consumption that someone can afford given the prices of goods and the
individual's income
24.Sunk costs - Correct Answer: costs that are made in the past and cannot
be recovered
25.Utility - Correct Answer: satisfaction, usefulness, or value one obtains
from consuming goods and services
26.Allocative efficiency - Correct Answer: when the mix of goods being
produced represents the mix that society most desires
27.Comparative advantage - Correct Answer: when a country can produce
a good at a lower cost in terms of other goods; or, when a country has a
lower opportunity cost of production