AP MACROECONOMICS FINAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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economics - ✔✔..., the study of how society manages its scarce resources
scarcity - ✔✔...not enough to go around
resources - ✔✔...simple things that satisfy human wants, used to make other things
ceteris paribus - ✔✔..., all other things held constant
trade-offs - ✔✔..., all the alternatives that we give up whenever we choose one course of action over
another
macroeconomics - ✔✔...the study of aggregate economic variables. And the national and global economy
microeconomics - ✔✔...study of decisions individual businesses make
marginal - ✔✔...additional
command economy - ✔✔...central authority makes decisions on production and consumption. (Soviet
Union)
positive economics - ✔✔..., An approach to economics that seeks to understand behavior and the
operation of systems without making judgments. It describes what exists and how it works.
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normative economics - ✔✔..., the part of economics involving value judgments about what the economy
should be like; focused on which economic goals and policies should be implemented; policy economics
land - ✔✔...production resources from nature. (water trees) pay rent.
labor - ✔✔...human resources. (physical effort, knowledge and skills). Pay wages, salary.
capital - ✔✔...produced tools of the trade. (buildings, machines, tools). pay interest.
entrepreneurship - ✔✔...the intelligence, imagination and ability to take risks needed to start up and
maintain a business (Bill Gates). profit.
market economy - ✔✔producers and consumers decide what is made, how much, and for whom.
full employment - ✔✔...all resources are being used efficiently
full production - ✔✔..., our nations resources are being allocated in the most efficient manner possible
consumer vs. capital goods - ✔✔...consumer goods are:shoes food, clothes. capital goods are man-made
tools of production: a fishing boat, a machine.
production possibilities curve - ✔✔... illustrates trade-offs and the optimum efficiency
opportunity cost - ✔✔...what must be given up to get what you want
economic growth - ✔✔...expansion of the production possibilities frontier.
economic system - ✔✔...how the questions "what to produce?", "how to produce it?" and "For whom is it
produced?"
traditional economy - ✔✔..economic decisions made based on what has always been done. traditions.
circular flow model - ✔✔...represents transactions in an economy
demand (curve) - ✔✔graphed demand schedule
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