Economics
Across
- 2. a market is a place where buyers and sellers exchange goods, services, or information.
- 3. a reward or punishment that encourages people to behave in a certain way.
- 5. means the money you have left over after you subtract the cost of making something from the price you sell it for; it's like the extra money you get when you
- 7. the amount of a product or item that is available for people to buy
- 8. how much the demand for a product changes when its price changes
- 9. means there is more of something available than people want to buy.
- 12. when the price of something changes, people don't change how much they buy very much
- 13. means the amount of money or value you give up when you choose to do something, like buying a toy, which means you can't use that money to buy something else at the same time; it's like the "price" you pay to get something, including
- 14. a state where the forces of supply and demand are balanced
Down
- 1. the total amount of money a business earns from selling goods or services
- 2. is when a single company controls the production or sale of a product or service
- 4. a person’s desire for a product or service.
- 6. means when the government limits how much of a product people can buy because there isn't enough of it to go around
- 7. occurs when demand for a product or service is greater than the supply at the current market price.
- 10. an economic strategy that involves focusing on a specific type of production to increase efficiency
- 11. the value or satisfaction that a person gets from consuming a product or service