IGCSE Economics Definition Review

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Across
  1. 2. someone who consumed a good or service without paying for it
  2. 3. A decrease in the quantity demanded or quantity supplied
  3. 5. The total cost to a society of an economic activity
  4. 9. The willingness and ability to buy a product
  5. 12. A product whose demand decreases when income increases
  6. 14. Human resources including mental and physical human effort
  7. 16. The willingness and ability to produce and sell a product
  8. 19. When quantity supplied changes by a smaller percentage than the change in price.
  9. 21. The study of the behaviour and decisions of households and firms, and the performance of individual markets
  10. 23. The way the decisions made by households and firms interact to decide the allocation of resources
  11. 25. A product that is used together with another
  12. 26. The next best alternative forgone
Down
  1. 1. Limited resources but/and unlimited wants.
  2. 2. Scarce resources used in production including land, labour, capital and enterprise
  3. 4. Moving the ownership and control of an industry from the private sector to the government
  4. 6. A payment by a government to encourage the production or consumption of a product
  5. 7. Risk bearing and key decision making in business
  6. 8. Market forces resulting in an inefficient allocation of resources
  7. 10. Man-made goods used in production, e.g. machine
  8. 11. A product that can be used in place of another
  9. 13. Products which the government considers consumers do not fully appreciate how beneficial they are and so which will be under-consumed if left to market forces. Such goods generate positive externalities.
  10. 15. A rise in the quantity demanded or quantity supplied
  11. 17. A numerical measure of the responsiveness of the quantity demanded to a change in price.
  12. 18. A single seller
  13. 20. something go bad quickly (especially of food)
  14. 22. money that a firm receives, equals to price times quantity
  15. 24. An arrangement which brings buyers into contact with sellers