Economics Unit 1 vocab
Across
- 3. A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money
- 4. The amount of goods available
- 5. Cost of the next best alternative use of money, time, and resources when one choice is made rather than another
- 6. Goods and services are produced the way it has always been done
- 8. Consumer willingness and ability to buy products
- 9. Idea that government should play as small a role as possible in economic affairs
- 10. The struggle among producers for the money of consumers
- 11. The study of the economy as a whole including topics such as inflation unemployment, and economic growth
- 13. The study of economic behavior and decision making of small units, such as indviduals, families, and businesses
- 17. Attempts to use monetary policy or fiscla policy to stimulate the economy (Ex: stimulus checks,lowering interest rate)
- 19. The financial gain made in a transaction
- 20. A person who purchases goods and services for personal use
- 21. Of or relating to money or currency
- 28. An economic system that uses a mixture of traditional, market, and command elements
- 29. An economic system in which the government controls a country's economy
- 30. A situation in which quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied
- 31. Attempts to detect, as early as possible, the moment when the industial trends are reversed
Down
- 1. A period of economic growth as measured by a rise in real GDP
- 2. Land,Labor, and Capital; the three groups of resources that are used to make all goods and services
- 7. A slowdown in a nation's economy
- 12. Involving financial matters
- 14. Benifits or costs of an action that influence people's decisions and behavior
- 15. The pattern in which goods, services, and resources flow in the marketplace
- 16. Economic system in which decisions on production and consumption of good and services are based on the voluntary exchange in markets (market decides economic decisions)
- 18. The study of unlimited wants but with limited resources
- 22. The act of giving up one benefit in order to gain another, great benefit
- 23. A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller
- 24. The percentage at which the money loaned is returned with added percentage multiplied by the original cost
- 25. Measures the number of people who are able to work but do not have a job during a period of time
- 26. A market structure in which only a few sellers offer similar or identical products
- 27. A low point or a local minimum of a busisness cycle