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WorksheetsUnderstanding Economics Concepts
Total questions: 69
Worksheet time: 51mins
What is the definition of economics?
Economics is the study of the allocation of scarce resources.
Economics is the analysis of historical events.
Economics focuses solely on financial markets.
Economics is the study of government policies.
Explain the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics.
Microeconomics studies individual economic units; macroeconomics studies the economy as a whole.
Microeconomics studies global trade; macroeconomics studies local businesses.
Microeconomics analyzes government policies; macroeconomics analyzes market trends.
Microeconomics focuses on national income; macroeconomics focuses on individual behavior.
What is the law of supply and demand?
The law of supply and demand states that supply always exceeds demand.
The law of supply and demand is the principle that prices are determined by the relationship between supply and demand.
The law of supply and demand dictates that demand is always higher than supply.
The law of supply and demand is a theory that prices are fixed regardless of market conditions.
What are the main types of economic systems?
Barter System
Capitalist Economy
Socialist Economy
Traditional, Command, Market, Mixed
Explain the concept of GDP and its significance.
GDP only measures population size.
GDP is a measure of a country's economic output and is significant for assessing economic health and guiding policy.
GDP is solely focused on agricultural output.
GDP is irrelevant to economic policy decisions.
What is inflation and how does it affect the economy?
Inflation only affects the stock market and not the general economy.
Inflation has no impact on interest rates or the cost of living.
Inflation is the increase in prices and decrease in purchasing power, affecting the economy by raising costs of living and influencing interest rates.
Inflation is the decrease in prices and increase in purchasing power.
Describe the role of government in a mixed economy.
The government only focuses on private businesses.
The government regulates the economy, provides public goods, ensures stability, and promotes social welfare in a mixed economy.
The government has no role in a mixed economy.
The government solely controls all production and distribution.
How do trade barriers impact international trade?
Trade barriers reduce international trade by increasing costs and limiting the availability of foreign goods.
Trade barriers enhance international trade by lowering costs.
Trade barriers have no effect on the availability of foreign goods.
Trade barriers promote the import of more foreign products.
concerned with the overall performance of the entire company
macroeconimics
microeconomics
concerned with the behaviour of individual entities such as the consumer producer and resource owner
microeconomics
macro economics
difficult to obtain because of the circumstances that surround the availability of goods.
goods is scarce compared to its demand
relative scar
absolute scarcity
when supply is limited because of very expensive output
relative
absolute scarcity
economic resources
land, labor, capital
wage, interedt, rent
who use applied economics?
John Neville Keynes
Jean-Baptiste Say
John stuart mill
who use applied economics?
John Neville Keynes
Jean-Baptiste Say
John stuart mill
Application of economic theory and econometrics in specific settings eith the goal or analysing potential outcomes
Mixed Economy
Applied economics
Refers to productivity and proper allocation of economic resources
effectiveness
effeciency
equity
means attainment of goals and objectives through manual labor or techonological advancement
effectiveness
efficiency
equity
justice and fairness because of presence of machineries, manual labor may not be accessible
effectiveness
efficiency
equity
That has functional value (money related) or marketable wealtth
wealth
consumption
distribution
production
trading or buying and selling of goods/services for money or equivalent value
wealth
distribution
consumption
exchange
formation or crstion by firms of output (labor,land,capital use)
cnsumtpion
wealth
distribution
production
allocating or appropriating scarce resources to be utilized at household
cnsumption
exchange
wealth
distribution
subsistence economy, a family produces a good for its own use
traditional eco
mixed eco
mrket eco
socialism
manner of production dictated by government
cmmand eco
traditonal eco
mixed eco
socialism
the resources are privately owned and the people makw their own decision
cmmand
traditonal
market
mixed
key enterprised are owned by state, private ownership is recognizer, that has capital assets control
traditional
socialism
mrket
mixed
mixture of msrket and command sustem
traditoonal
cmmand
mixed
mrket
father of economics
John keynes
adam smith
wealth of nation
john stuart mill
adam smith
political economy that means managament of entire state
john stuart mill
john neville keynes
das kapital ehich msjor socialist thought was to emerge
Karl Marx
adam smith
NeoClassical 1870s
Leon Walras
John Stuart Mill
Karl Marx
NeoClassical Economics (1890-1924)
Leon Walras
Alfred Marshall
John Maynard Keynes
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Leon Walras
Alfred Marshall
John Maynard Keynes
Non-walrasian Economics (1939)
Leon Walras
John Hicks
Alfred Marshall
Supply and demand theory
Alfred marshall
leon walras
maynard keynes
the higher the income the more demand there will be.
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favorable change because of
advertisement and fashion which leads to increase in demand.
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Increase in populations , increase in demand abounds.
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related goods are those
substitute or complimentary goods.
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are those that give the same value but differ in price,
brand, form or shape that give the same value but differ in price
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are goods that go hand in hand or always
together.
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As there will be an increase in the
price of a commodity the natural reaction is for people to buy more today
to save.
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Since credit cards are already used
as medium of exchange, people are tempted to demand more because of
easy terms of payment.
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if there is a natural resources, typhoon and
change in weather conditions demand for commodities are affected.
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As the price increases, the consumers are not willing to buy
more decreasing quantity demanded or as the price
decreases the consumers are more willing to buy, increasing
the quantity demanded.
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refers to the willingness of the people to sell
or produce the goods regardless whether it is a
need or a want over a period of time at a given
price.
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As the price increases, the producers are willing to
sell more, increasing quantity supply or as the price
decreases the producers are not willing to sell more ,
decreasing the quantity supply.
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derived from the supply
schedule, plots these points on a graph,
typically sloping upwards from left to right,
indicating that as prices increase, the
quantity supplied also increases.
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Increase in the price of goods especially
raw materials will discourage producers to produce more.
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The higher cost of production like
raw materials, labor and electricity will decrease number of
supplied products.
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There will be shortage of
supply once the raw materials needed for the production is
not obtainable.
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An increase in supply is due to a lot
of sellers involved in the market.
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the fast increase of supply of goods and services are
indebted to the advance technology around.
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The imposition of low taxes will encourage producers to
sell more while a high tax will discourage producers to supply more.
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These are help extended by the government to motivate
the business firm to do business like promotion and advertisement for
favored business.
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Suppliers are affected by what weather
and natural calamities will bring
to the country in a year especially agricultural crops. (drought)
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a point where the sellers and the
consumers agree to pay the price of the commodity. It is
actually the point of the intersection and where demand is
equal to supply.
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It is the price where the
buyers are willing to buy and the price of the seller’s
willingness to sell.
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the maximum price to be imposed by the sellers
to its commodity.
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the minimum price to be imposed by the sellers.
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are the things that will give us the state of
ease and contentment. ( satisfaction)
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are the things that we must have for us to
live like food, clothing or shelter.
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refers to the willingness of the
people to buy or purchase the goods regardless
whether it is a need or a want over a period of
time at a given place.
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is the total market value of all goods and services produced within
a country’s borders during a specific period. It includes the production
output of both citizens and non-citizens within those borders.
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measures the total market value of all goods and
services produced by the residents of a country, regardless of where they
are located.
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The theory states that economic
growth is the result of three
factors—labor, capital, and technology.
While an economy has limited
resources in terms of capital and labor,
the contribution from technology to
growth is boundless
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INTRODUCE NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS
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