Economics Semester Final
Across
- 3. a market with many buyers and sellers trading identical products so that each buyer and seller is a price taker
- 4. the study of economy-wide phenomena, including inflation, unemployment, and economic growth
- 5. the claim that, other things equal, the quantity demanded of a good falls when the price of the good rises
- 8. small incremental adjustments to a plan of action
- 9. claims that attempt to describe the world as it is
- 10. the study of how society manages its scarce resources
- 12. claims that attempt to prescribe how the world should be
- 13. a graph of the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded
- 14. a visual model of the economy that shows how dollars flow through markets among households and firms
- 16. the ability to produce a good using fewer inputs than another producer
- 18. whatever must be given up to obtain some item
- 19. a situation in which quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied
- 20. the claim that the price of any good adjusts to bring the quantity supplied and the quantity demanded for that good into balance
- 24. the limited nature of society’s resources
- 25. a good for which, other things equal, an increase in income leads to a decrease in demand
- 26. the quantity supplied and the quantity demanded at the equilibrium price
- 29. spending by households on goods and services, with the exception of purchases of new housing
- 30. a table that shows the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity demanded
- 32. a situation in which a market left on its own fails to allocate resources efficiently
- 33. the price that balances quantity supplied and quantity demanded
- 38. a situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded
- 42. the quantity of goods and services produced from each unit of labor input
- 43. a table that shows the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity supplied
- 44. an economy that allocates resources through the decentralized decisions of many firms and households as they interact in markets for goods and services
- 45. the claim that, other things equal, the quantity supplied of a good rises when the price of the good rises
Down
- 1. two goods for which an increase in the price of one leads to a decrease in the demand for the other
- 2. an increase in the overall level of prices in the economy
- 3. the ability to produce a good at a lower opportunity cost than another producer
- 6. a good for which, other things equal, an increase in income leads to an increase in demand
- 7. people who systematically and purposefully do the best they can to achieve their objectives
- 9. a graph that shows the combinations of output that the economy can possibly produce given the available factors of production and the available production technology
- 11. the property of distributing economic prosperity uniformly among the members of society
- 15. the ability of a single economic actor (or small group of actors) to have a substantial influence on market prices
- 17. goods produced domestically and sold abroad
- 21. the study of how households and firms make decisions and how they interact in markets
- 22. a group of buyers and sellers of a particular good or service
- 23. two goods for which an increase in the price of one leads to an increase in the demand for the other
- 27. the amount of a good that sellers are willing and able to sell
- 28. the amount of a good that buyers are willing and able to purchase
- 31. the property of society getting the most it can from its scarce resources
- 34. something that induces a person to act
- 35. goods produced abroad and sold domestically
- 36. the ability of an individual to own and exercise control over scarce resources
- 37. the uncompensated impact of one person’s actions on the well-being of a bystander
- 39. fluctuations in economic activity, such as employment and production
- 40. a situation in which the market price has reached the level at which quantity supplied equals quantity demanded
- 41. a graph of the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity supplied