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1
The most basic economic problem that ALL economic systems must deal with is the issue of?
Monopoly
Profit
Automation
Scarcity
2
All of the following are basic economic questions except?
HOW to produce?
WHAT to produce?
FOR WHOM to produce?
WHEN to produce?
3
What economic system are the following words associated with?
Barter
Manorialism
Capitalism/Market/Free Enterprise
Command/Communism
4
Having a great variety of goods and services is a characteristic of which economic system?
All systems have this
Traditional
Command
Market
5
A period of rising prices is called?
Deflation
Inflation
Price Stability
Depression
6
Which economic system is the United States?
Free Enterprise/Capitalism
Command
Barter
Traditional
7
A production possibilities curve shows us?
Income levels
Wages
Opportunity Cost
GDP
8
All of the following are CAPITAL good except?
Investor
Bobcat
Jack Hammer
Commercial Truck
9
To not have enough of a particular resource.
Scarcity
Utility
Surplus
Marginal cost
10
What economic concept is defined as what one gives up when choosing to use resources 1 thing?
Productivity
Profit Motive
Opportunity Cost
Specialization
11
An economist is a social scientist who studies all of the following EXCEPT?
Stock Market
Income levels
Languages
Tax structures
12
A person who takes a risk to start a business is known as a ?
President
Entrepreneur
CEO
Dictator
13
All of the following are factors of production except?
Capital
Land
Media
Labor
14
Economic term for usefulness, beneftits, value, or satisfaction you get out of a good/service.
Utility
Want
Trade off
Need
15
The economist that wrote about Capitalism and the "invisible hand" was?
Friedrich Engels
Warren Buffet
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
16
In which economic system does the government make all the major decisions on what to produce?
Mixed
Market
Command
Traditional
17
The individual who is known as the father of communism (command economy) is?
Karl Marx
Adam Smith
Warren Buffet
Friedrich Engels
18
The difference between the cost to make a good and the price is the?
Demand Margin
Profit
Elasticity Curve
Supply Curve
19
An individual who makes purchases of goods/services for personal use.
Economist
Producer
Manufacturer
Consumer
20
The value of time, money, goods, and services given up in an economic choice is called?
Item Cost
Trade off
Economics
Opportunity Cost