Economics Extra Credit Crossword
Across
- 1. Money that has no value except as the medium of exchange; There is no inherent or intrinsic value to the currency.
- 3. The study of how people allocate their limited resources to satisfy their nearly unlimited wants
- 6. Tangible out-of-pocket expenses
- 7. A market condition that occurs when the quantity supplied of a good is greater than the quantity demanded.
- 11. The highest valued alternative that must be sacrificed in order to get something else
- 13. A phenomenon seen when a party that is protected from risk behaves differently from the way it would behave if it were fully exposed to the risk.
- 15. A short-term economic downturn that typically lasts about 6 to 18 months
- 16. A condition occurring at the point where the demand curve and the supply curve intersect
- 17. A school of thought that stresses the importance of aggregate demand and generally believes that the economy needs help in moving back to full employment equilibrium
- 19. This type of thinking is the evaluation of whether the benefit of one more unit of something is greater than its cost
- 21. A type of demand condition in which consumers are responsive to a change in price
- 23. Unemployment caused by economic downturns
- 24. Total revenue minus total cost; a negative result is a loss.
Down
- 2. Taxes levied on imported goods and services
- 4. This exists when a small number of firms sell a product in a market with high barriers to entry.
- 5. The limited nature of society's resources, given society's unlimited wants and needs.
- 8. Factors that motivate a person to act or exert effort
- 9. A market in which there are so many buyers and sellers that each has only a small impact on the market price and output
- 10. A condition occurring when a worker who is not currently employed is searching for a job without success
- 12. Unemployment caused by changes in the industrial makeup of the economy
- 14. A condition existing when a single company supplies the entire market for a particular good or service
- 18. A firm's opportunity costs of doing business
- 20. The market value of all final goods and services produced within a country during a specific period.
- 22. The tools and equipment used in the production of goods and services