Across
- 1. deficit- a situation in which government, business firm, or individual received less income than is paid out in expenses
- 4. payments- payments of money from the government to individuals for which no specific economic repayment is expected
- 8. the factor of production denoting the activity of creatively combining natural resources, human labor, and financial capital in unique ways to develop new and useful products and services
- 11. cost- the payments business firms make in exchange for the four factors or production
- 13. of production- the resources used in producing the nations GDP: land, labor, financial capital, and entrepreneurship
- 14. the factors of production denoting all-natural resources that go into the production of goods
- 16. factors of production denoting all human effort that goes into the creation of goods and services
- 17. a table or chart explaining the relationship between pairs of variables
- 18. market- the vas collection of financial institutions that receive deposits of excess funds from households and that lend to business firms; includes commercial banks, saving and loan associations, credit unions, insurance companies, finance companies, and stock brokerage firms
- 19. graph- a graph formed by the plotting of data involving two variables and the connection of the resulting points to form a line
Down
- 1. surplus-a situation in which government, business firm, or individual received more income than is paid out in expenses
- 2. how much someone makes
- 3. payment for the use of the owner’s property
- 5. expenditures- the total expenditures made by all households
- 6. flow model- a model depicting the flow of economic goods and services between households, business firms, the government, and financial markets
- 7. additional charge that a creditor charges the borrower to cover the expense of the loan
- 9. factor cost involving the rewards entrepreneurs receive for successful risk-taking
- 10. model- a table or chart explaining the relationship between pairs of variables
- 12. the third factor of production and refers to goods used to produce other goods
- 15. possibilities curve- a model that enables an economist to see the maximum feasible amounts of two commodities that a business can produce when those items are competing for that business’s limited resources
