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A #economics Quiz to review the #basics
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Resources are limited but wants are unlimited =
Supply
Opportunity Cost
Scarcity
Demand
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People who start a business
capital
entrepreneur
labor
land
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Consumers willingly trade their money for the goods and services they want or need is known as-
Extortion
Competition
Voluntary Exchange
Gross Domestic Product
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Legal designation for the ownership of property by non-governmental entities is
Competition
Private Property
Open Opportunity
Self - Interest
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Economy = great deal of freedom, a laissez-faire gov't, and right to private property is
socialism
traditional
capitalism
communism
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The tools (tools, money, buildings) that people use to produce goods and services
physical capital
labor
human capital
land
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Macroeconomics is to a hotel as Microeconomics is to the
the rooms
continental breakfast
government
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Natural Resources
Land
Entrepreneur
Labor
Capital
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The knowledge and skills people use to produce a good or service
physical capital
labor
land
human capital
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The US economy is
mixed but tending toward free-market
planned
entirely capitalist
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Prices in a free market are largely determined by
land and labor
Supply and Demand
Scarcity and cost
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An example of a land (natural resource) is
oil well drilling rig
knowledge of petroleum markets
oil
roughnecks working the Eagle Ford shale
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I have to make a choice of how to spend my money, The thing I do not pick is called the
Demand
Land
Opportunity Cost
Scarcity
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Starting a new business or taking a job to make money is known as
Opportunity Cost
Human Capital
Patriotism
Profit Motive
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Consumers control the market place when they "vote" with their dollars --
Consumer Sovreignty
Communism
Underutilization
Benefit
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Economy = Based largely on customs & beliefs, low productivity, subsistence
capitalism
socialism
traditional
communism
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The struggle between businesses for consumers $dollars$
incentive
socialism
competition
self-regulation
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Economy = a lot of gov't intervention, private property, high taxes, wealth redistribution
capitalism
communism
traditional
socialism
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If you worked at a car factory you would be a
producer
consumer
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When you go to buy a car you are a
Consumer
Producer
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Economy = Gov't controls all economic decisions, very little real freedom.
communism
capitalism
traditional
socialism
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Workers concentrating on one job which creates efficiency in production
profit-motive
free-trade
specialization
technology
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Limited Government =
Au Revoir
Laissez - Faire
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The total value of all goods and services produced in a country
capitalism
market
Unemployment rate
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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The work that people do
capital
entrepreneur
land
labor