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Micro 1 and 2 Flashcards

AQA A-level economics

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What is the fundamental/basic economic problem

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Individuals in an economy have infinite wants while there are scarce resources available to meet those wants

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What is opportunity cost

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The cost of the next best alternative that you give up when you have a choice

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What are the two forms of economic systems

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Free market/capitalist economy
The command/centrally planned economy

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What is a free market/capitalist economy

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Decisions are solely made by the interactions of consumers and firms with no government interaction

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What is the command/centrally planned economy

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Decisions are solely made by the government

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What are positive statements

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Either true or false statements that are objective

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What are normative statements

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Subjective statements that cannot be verified or falsified

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What is a value judgement

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A judgement about what is good/bad, important/valuable, based upon subjective opinion which informs economic and political decision making

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What are the key questions economists try to answer

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  • What goods or services should be produced to meet customer needs?
  • How should they be produced?
  • Who should receive the goods and services?
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What are the four factors of production

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Labour, land, capital and enterprise

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What is land as a factor of production

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Land includes all natural resources e.g. fertile farm land, coal, oil, wood etc

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What is labour as a factor of production

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The human input in production e.g. supply of workers

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What is capital as a factor of production

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Physical, man-made resources (capital goods) used to produce consumer goods

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What is enterprise as a factor of production

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The individual who supplies products to a market to make a profit which often involves risk-taking to identify a gap in the market and execute their idea

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What are economic goods

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They are scarce so have an opportunity cost e.g. wood used to make a house cant be used for anything else

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What are free goods

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They have no opportunity cost as they are in abundance

17
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What is a PPF?

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A diagram used to illustrate the maximum quantities of two goods that a producer or economy can produce in any combination over a given period of time given the current resources.

18
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How does a PPF relate to opportunity cost

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A PPF shows the opportunity cost for using scarce resources

19
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What causes the PPF to shift outwards which allows more of both goods to be produced?

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  • Improvement in the quality and/or quantity of the factors of production
  • Technological advancements
20
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What is a trade off

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When an economic agent substitutes the production of one good/service for another

21
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What is allocative efficiency

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The state of the economy in which production matches consumer efficiency

22
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What is Pareto efficiency

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When no one can be made better without someone becoming worse off

23
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What is utility theory

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When making economic decisions, consumers aim to maximise their utility and firms aim to maximise profits

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What is Utility

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The total satisfaction gained from consuming a good or service

25
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What is diminishing marginal utility

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States that as an extra unit of good is consumed the marginal utility falls. Therefore, the consumer is willing to pay less for the good.

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What is utility maximisation

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When consumers aim to create the greatest utility possible from an economic decision

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What is demand

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The amount of goods and services consumers are willing and able to buy at a given time and price

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What are the factors of production

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  • The scarce resources (inputs) used to make goods and services
29
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What is the reward for land

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rent

30
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What is the reward for labour

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wages

31
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What is the reward for capital

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interest

32
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What is the reward for enterprise

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profit

33
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What are the role of households

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Supply factors of production

34
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What is the role of firms

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Convert factors of production into goods and services

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