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What is ceteris Paribus?

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When all other things remain unchanged

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What is opportunity cost ?

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The next best alternative foregone between 2 or more choices.

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What is a positive statement?

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Statements that can be testable, amendable and rejectable tend to have factual evidence

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What is a normative statement ?

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Statement that is a value judgement which tend to be opinion based.

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What is the economic problem?

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There are infinite wants and scarce resources allocated.

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What are the four factors of production?

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Land
Labour
Capital
Enterprise

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What are examples of Land(Factors of production)

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Non-renewable resources
renewable resources
Animals found in Area
Water
materials

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What is Labour?(Factors of production)

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Labour force
Employed (Active population)

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What is Capital?

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Capital is equipment used in producing goods and or services

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What is enterprise ?

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Entrepreneur who takes on risk and creates products or services using the other three factors of production.

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Name some stakeholders impacted by the economic problem?

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Consumers(Decide what they want to buy and for how much)
Government (How much to intervene on how consumers and producers act)
Producers(What to make how much to sell for)

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Explain how firms,Government and Consumers act rationally

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Consumers(Maximise utilities)
Government (Maximise social welfare)
Firms(Maximise profits)

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What is a PPF(Production possibility frontier)

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Shows the maximum amount of combinations for good x and good y an economy can produce

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What is a trade-off?

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You have to choose between conflicting objectives because you cannot achieve at the same time(Opportunity cost)

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What factors affect a PPF to shift outwards?

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Increased resources
Improved tech
Improved labour
suggests economic growth

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What factors affect a PPF to shift inwards?

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Fewer resources
natural disasters
suggests negative economic growth

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What is a market?

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A market is where buyers and sellers come together to exchange something they have for something they’d prefer to have.

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What is a free market economy?

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a free market is an economic system in which the prices of goods and services are determined by supply and demand expressed by sellers and buyers

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What are the pros and cons of a free market economy?

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Pros:
Efficiency
(Only best value items will be in demand, Motivate for good items innovation )

Entrepreneurship
(risk to reward ratio , reward for good innovation)

Choice
(greater choice for consumers)

Cons:
Inequalities
(different incomes)

Non-profitable goods may not be made

monopolies
(dominating markets)

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What is a command economy ?

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Command economy government decide how resources should be allocated

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pros and cons of a command economy

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pros:
Maximise social welfare
(Prevent inequality , redistribute income fairly)

Low unemployment

Prevent monopolies

Cons:
Poor-decision making
(Lack of information asymmetric information gaps)

Restricted choice

Lack of risk-taking and efficiency

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What is a mixed economy ?

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Government and markets both play a part in allocating resources

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Adam Smith context

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Invisible hand (Resources allocated in societys best interest)

No Monopolies , Low barriers to entry, maximise competition

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What does Margin mean?

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The change in variable caused by an increase of one unit of additional variable

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How to calculate marginal cost?
Total cost(new output level)- Total cost(one unit less than that) The total cost of producing 100 ice creams is £100 and the Total cost of producing 101 ice creams is £102 £102-£100=2 =MC
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What is marginal utility?
benefit gained from consuming one additional unit of a good
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What is total utility?
Overall benefit gained from consuming a good
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What is the law of diminishing marginal utility? How does this affect demand?
each additional unit consumed decreases satisfaction of previous unit consumed From a demand and supply diagram Demand always slope downwards as The more consumption the cheaper price and higher price less demand.
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What are Producers economic objectives?
Maximise profits(TR-TC) (Survival, reinvest for greater profits, expand ) Maximise total sales (Become a monopoly, dominance) Ethics (May buy from a supplier nearby to help domestically)
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What are consumers economic objectives?
Maximise utilites (Security,consumption) Maximise Income (can work as workers)
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What are government economic objectives ?
Maximise Net welfare stable Economic growth stable/low inflation High employment Equal balance of payments
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Why would consumers act irrationally ?
Habitual behaviour Social Norm Rule of thumb(Middle item)
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What is bounded rationality ?
Limits on self-control(addiction to cigarettes does not maximise consumer utilities)
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What is Demand?
The quantity of goods and services that will be bought at any time given price over a period of time
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What is a Downwards movement along the demand curve called and a upwards movement?
Downwards movement(Expansion) upwards movement(Contraction)
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Why do shifts in demand occur?
Amount demanded increases or decreases for all prices
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What affects Demand?
Popularity Income elasticity
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What is a Normal,Inferior and Luxury good?
Normal good(Goods that will be demanded more as income increases)(DVDS) Inferior good(goods that will be demanded less as income increases) (Lidl, Aldi, saver menu) Luxury good(Goods that will be demanded as income increases)(sports cars)
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What are substitute, complimentary goods, derived demand and composite demand
Substitute goods are goods that are alternatives to other such as Fish and red meat Complimentary goods are goods that impact one another such as salt and fish Derived demand is the demand for a good or factor of production used in making another good or service such as Wood for Fences Composite demand is goods with more than one use such as oil
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What is PED,YED , XED
PED(Price elasticity of demand) is how responsive demand is when price increases. YED(Income elasticity of demand) is how responsive demand is when income increases. XED(Cross elasticity of demand) is how responsive demand for good A when Price B increases
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When PED>1, PED<1 what does this mean to elasticity ?
PED>1(Elastic with demand) PED<1(Inelastic with demand)
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When PED=Infinity, PED=0 what does this mean to elasticity ?
PED=Infinity (Perfectly elastic) PED=0(Perfectly inelastic)
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What affects PED(Price elasticity of demand)?
Substitutes (more goods,More elastic) Type of good(Habitual, Necessities ) Percentage of income spent(Fridge elastic) Time(Price over time becomes elastic)
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How does PED affect Revenue
Revenue = Price x quantity Elastic demand =(Lower price, More revenue)(Higher price, lower revenue) Inelastic demand(Higher price , more revenue, Lower price lower revenue)
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How does XED prove that goods are substitutes or complimentary?
XED=+(Substitutes are positive higher XED more correlation ) XED=-(complimentary are negative ) XED=0 (independent goods)
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How is YED useful to Firms and government?
YED is useful to firms to predict sales forecasting Firms may supply multiple different goods to maximise revenue even in booms and recessions
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What is supply?
Supply is the quantity of goods and or services produce to the market at a given price and time
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Why does Supply shift?
A supply curve shifts due to changes in factors such as production costs, technology, government policies, expectations, or the number of suppliers in the market.
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What factors affect supply?
Changes to cost of production Tech improv Productivity Taxes + subsidies Competitors(Number of suppliers) Price of other goods
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What is PES?
Price elasticity of supply How responsive Quantity supplied is regard to price
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When PES>1,PES<1 what does this mean?
PES>1(Elastic supply ) PES<1(Inelastic supply)
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When PES= Infinity , PES= 0 what does this mean?
PES= Infinity (Perfectly elastic) PES=0(perfectly Inelastic)
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Why is PES important to firms?
Firms aim to be elastic as possible Helps strategic decision making on pricing Strats and production levels
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What factors affect PES?
Unemployment (new workers) Perishable goods(food) Inventory
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What is price mechanism(Invisible hand)
Interaction of supply and demand to determine prices
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What is signalling ?
(Fall in prices,Signals consumers want fewer goods) (Increase in prices, Signals consumers want more goods) Producers
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What is Incentivising ?
(fall in prices , Reduces incentives less profit to be made) (Rise in prices , Incentives more profit to be made) Producers
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What is rationing ?
(Limiting consumption, Rising prices eliminates fewer consumers as not many people willing to pay higher prices) Consumers
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Where is excess demand and supply on a supply demand diagram when a market is equilibrium ?
Top (supply) Bottom(demand)
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What is Producer surplus and Consumer surplus?
Producer surplus is when they obtain more than they were originally wanted to sell for Consumer surplus is when they are willing to pay a higher price Than original price.
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What is a subsidy ?
Money paid from the government to incentivise producers to lower prices
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What are the benefits of subsidy ?
Increase production Partly to consumer and producer
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What is division of labour?
The assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency.
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of specialisation?
Advantages: Higher output Variety A bigger market Disadvantages: Unrewarding, repetitive work that requires little skill can lower motivation and eventually causes lower productivity. Workers may take less pride in work and quality suffers. Dissatisfied workers cause absenteeism to increase People move to less boring jobs creating a problem of high worker turnover and increased hiring/training costs Increased risk of repetitive strain injuries at work Some workers receive little training and may not be able to find alternative jobs when out of work – they suffer structural unemployment / occupational immobility Mass-produced standardised goods may lack variety
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What is a externality ?
It occurs when there is an external impact on a third party not involved in the economic transaction
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What is market failure?
Price mechanism leads to misallocation of resources
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What are the types of market failure ?
Negative externalities Positive externalities Information gaps Public goods
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How do government intervene Asymetric information gaps?
Regulation Providing information (advertising) Subsidies taxes
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What is Imperfect information?
someone docent have full information on the costs and benefits of their decisions
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What is asymmetric information?
When one party knows more than another party in a transaction.
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What is a public good ?
A good or service that is non-excludable and non -rivalry .
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What is the free rider problem?
Consumer wait for others to buy and free ride Producers won't produce public goods as no profits
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What are examples of public goods?
Flood defences Police, Fire brigade Roads Parks

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