Economics

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Cards (24)

  • What is a economy
    production and consumption in society, involving exchange of good, services for money
  • What is economics
    the study of the allocations of scarce and limited resources to stratify unlimited wants
  • Economic problem
    what will be produce? How much will be produced?
  • Factors of production
    4 FOP including- land, labour, capital, enterprise
  • FOP = INCOME RETURN
    Land = labour, labour = wages, capital = interest, enterprise = profit
  • Scarcity?
    shortage of an item, there isn’t enough to supply everyone’s need an wants (demands)
  • Opportunity cost
    what is forgone when choosing an alternative over another
  • Economic agents
    different group involved, interaction ensure good,service able to meet society need/want
  • Households
    consumers,own factory of production, provide skill for income. use money for good/service
  • Business
    firms.purchase FOP produce good/service, pay income 2household.produce output to consumers
  • Business cycle
    Upswing-increasing GDP:boom-highest GDP:downswing-decreasing GDP:recession/bust-lowest GDP