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Positive statement

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Statements that are objective and can be tested using evidence

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Normative statement

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Subjective statements which contain a value judgement

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The economic problem

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How can the available scarce resources be used to satisfy the infinite wants and needs of people as effectively as possible?

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Economic problem solutions

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What to produce
How to produce it
For whom to produce/ how to best allocate the produced goods and services

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Opportunity cost

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Th next best alternative forgone when an economic decision is made

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Factors of production ( these are owned by households)

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Capital
Enterprise
Labour
Land

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Capital

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Man made good used in the production of goods and services e.g. factories and schools

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Enterprise

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Willingness to make a risk to make a profit. Refers to the people (entrepreneurs) who take risk and create things from the other three factors of production.

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Labour

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The physical and mental effort that goes into producing a good or service

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Labour force

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The population who are able to work are called the labour force

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Land

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As well as actual territory land includes all of the earths natural resources :
1) non renewable (natural gas, oil, coal)
2) renewable (wind, tidal power)
3)materials (diamond, gold)
4)Water
5)animals

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Payment of capital

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Interest

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Payment for enterprise

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Profit

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Payment of labour

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Wages

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Payment of land

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Rent

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Expenditure

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Spending of income

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Economic systems

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Network of organisations and institutions engaged within a society to allocate scarce resources in an attempt to maximise social welfare

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Spectrum of economic systems defined by allocation

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Pure command economy
Mixed economy
Pure market economy

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Pure command economy

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Resources are allocated outside/without markets via a planning mechanism

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Mixed economy

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Contains large market and non market sectors

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Pure market economy

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The price mechanism allocates resources in markets

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Spectrum of economic systems defined by ownership

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Communist economy
Mixed
Capitalist economy

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Communist economy

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The means of production are publicly owned

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Mixed ownership economy

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Mixed ownership of the means of production. Therefore it has large private sectors and public sectors

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Capitalist economy
The means of production are privately owned
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Market
A market is where buyers and sellers interact to trade (exchange) goods and services
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Market operating freely
1. Individual buyers and sellers decide; what, how, how much, where and when to trade 2. Individual buyers and seller trade in reference to their own self interest 3. Prices convey to the market participants information about self interest and opportunities.
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Three functions of market prices
1) signalling function: provides Clean information to buyers (consumers) and sellers (producers) about the market conditions 2) incentive function: creates incentives for households and firms that allows them to meet objectives based on their own self interest 3) rationing (allocating) function: The price mechanism allocates and rations scarce resources to households and firms who are most willing and able to pay in pursuit of self interest
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Production possibility curve (PPC)
Shows the maximum output combinations of two goods and services that can be produced utilising current resources' and technology in a given period of time
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What is economic efficiency?
Allocative efficiency plus productive efficiency
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Definition of supply
The quantity that sellers are willing to and able to supply at a given price over a given period of time
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Definition of individual supply
Is the supply of one seller
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Definition of market supply
Is the total supply of all sellers in the market. Market supply is the sum of all the individual supply by sellers in a market
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What is the law of supply
Quantity supplied will usually increase as price increases, and quantity supplied will usually fall as price falls, ceteris paribus.
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Equation for price elasticity of supply
PES = %change in quantity supplied/ % change in price
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Contraction of supply curve
A contraction of supply occurs when there is a fall in quantity supplied due to a fall in price
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Extension of supply curve
An extension of supply occurs when there is an increase in quantity supplied due to an increase in the price of the product
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Economic efficiency
Allocative efficiency plus productive efficiency
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Allocative efficiency
Maximise social welfare Consumer surplus + producer surplus
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Productive efficiency
Using all resources Operating on the ppc
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Shift of ppc
Caused by a change in the quantity and/or quality of resources available in the economy, improvement in technology
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How does ppc show potential economic growth
An increase in a county’s potential productive capacity
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How does ppc show actual economic growth (short run economic growth )
The country experiences an actual output of goods and services produced
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Demand
The quantity that buyers are willing and able to buy at a given price in a given period of time
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What is the law of demand ?
The quantity demanded will usually increase as price falls, and vice versa ceteris paribus
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Demand function
I demand function is an equation that shows the mathematical relationship between the quantity demanded of a good and the various determinants of demand
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Determinants of demand
Price of product Income of buyers Price of substitute goods Price of complimentary goods Tastes and preferences of buyers Expectations of future price
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Price elasticity of demand
PED = percentage change in quantity demanded/ percentage change in price level PED =%deltaQd/%deltaP
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Contraction of demand
A contraction of demand occurs when there is a fall in quantity demanded due to an increase in the price level of a product. Shown by movement to the left
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An extension of demand
Occurs when there is an increase in quantity demanded due to a fall in the price of the product. Show by a movement to a right
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Income (wealth) effect
An increase in price leads to buyers being worse off. Their income is unchanged and therefore their income buys less of the given goods/service. This is likely to lead to an contraction in demand.
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What is the substitution effect?
In increase in price leads to consumers/buyers being more likely to switch to buying an alternative product and is likely to lead to a contraction of demand. Vise versa
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What is division of labour
Where the production process is broken down into stages and workers are assigned different tasks
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What is specialisation
Where an individual, worker, firm, region or country produces a limited range of goods or services
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What is bartering
Is trade/exchange of goods or services for other goods or services without using a medium of exchange (such as money)
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Income elasticity of demand
%change in quantity demand/ %change in income YED = %changeQd/%changeY
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Positive YED
Indicates a normal good
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Negative YED
Indicates an inferior good
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YED magnitude greater than 1
Indicates that a good or service is income elastic
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YED magnitude less than 1
Demand for good or service is income inelastic
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YED close to 0
Demand for good or service is relatively unresponsive to a change in income
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XED
%DeltaQd of good x/%deltaP y
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Positive XED
if there is a positive relationship the two goods are substitutes
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Negative XED
The two products are considered compliments
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XED > 1
Cross price elastic
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XED < 1
Cross price inelastic
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Movement of supply curve
Caused by a change in price
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Shifts in the supply curve
1) cost of raw materials 2)costs of labour 3) productivity 4) technology 5) interest payments ( cost of finance) 6) indirect taxes All cost related
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Concave PPC
Demonstrates the law of increasing opportunity cost - as we produce more of one good or service more and more of the other good is given up each time.

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