economics vocab chapter 4
Across
- 2. decrease in additional satisfaction or usefulness as additional units of a product are acquired.
- 7. that portion of a change in quantity demanded cause by a change in a consumer's income when the price of a product changes.
- 8. elasticity where a change in the independent variable generates a proportional change of the dependent variable.
- 12. graph showing the quantity demanded at each and every possible price that might prevail in the market at a given time.
- 13. competing products that can be used in place of one another.
- 15. listing showing the quantity demanded at all possible prices that might prevail in the market at a given time.
- 16. something that motivates.
- 18. measure of responsiveness that tells us how a dependent variable such as quantity demanded or quantity supplied responds to a change in independent variable such as price.
- 19. movement along the demand curve showing that a different quantity is purchased in response to a change in price.
Down
- 1. branch of economic theory that deals with behavior and decision making by small units such as individuals and firms.
- 3. products that increase the use of other products.
- 4. case of demand elasticity where the percentage change in the independent variable causes a less than proportionate change in the dependent variable.
- 5. additional satisfaction or usefulness obtained from acquiring or consuming one more unit of a product.
- 6. the extent to which a change in price causes a change in the quantity demanded.
- 9. rule stating that more will be demanded at lower prices and less at higher prices.
- 10. demand curve that shows the quantities demanded by everyone who is willing and able to purchase a product at all possible prices at one moment in time.
- 11. the portion of a change in quantity demanded that is due to a change in the relative price of the good.
- 14. type of elasticity in which a change in the independent variable results in a larger change in the dependent variable.
- 15. combination of quantities that someone would be willing and able to buy over a range of possible prices at a given moment.
- 17. different amounts of a product are demanded at every price causing the demand curve to shift to the left or to the right.