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09/29/2008

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Opportunity cost
Definition
the benifit forgone as a result of making a choice or decision
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marginal cost
Definition
The additional cost arising from making a choice or decition
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marginal benefit
Definition
The additional benifit arising from making a choice or decision
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macroeconomics
Definition
the study of behavior of economic agregrets
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microeconomics
Definition
the study of individual buyers and sellers
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consumer budget line
Definition
a graph that shows the combinations of two goods that an indavidual may consume
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the Production possibility frontier
Definition
A graph that shows combinations of two products an economy can produce
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the law of oppertunity cost
Definition
The lae depicted by a negitive slope of the production possibility curve
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law of increasing opportunity cost
Definition
the law depicted by a negitive slope of the production possibility frontier
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fixed resources, fixed technology, two goods, productive effeciency.
Definition
The 4 asumptions in production possiblity
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unemployed resources
Definition
situation represented by a point inside production possibility curve
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Economic Growth
Definition
Situation represented by a shift to the right of the production possibilities curve
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profit maximization
Definition
objective of a business firm in a competitive market
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least cost resource combination
Definition
Objective of a business firm in a competitive market
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gross domestic product
Definition
the total market value of final goods and services made in the US
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net domestic product
Definition
GDP less depreciation
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consumption of fixed capital
Definition
another name for depreciation
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national income
Definition
income earned by all resouce owners in the economy
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GDP price index
Definition
The price index that measures the prices of final goods purchased by all selectors
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the consumer price index
Definition
the price index that measures the cost of a market based on consumer goods
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nominal GDP
Definition
The GDP at current prices
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real gpd
Definition
the gdp adjusted for the price index
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Gross Domestic investment
Definition
Expendadures of newly produced capital goods
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Recession
Definition
The phase of a business cycle that follows the peak of a cycle
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depression
Definition
a prolonged reccesion
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frictional unemployment
Definition
due to normal quits and layoffs in a market
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structural unemployment
Definition
due to changes in supply and demand
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Cyclical unempploment
Definition
due to recesion and demands
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natural (or full enployment) unemployment
Definition
structural or frictional unemplyment as a % of the labor force/ unemployment that persists even when the labor force is full
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inflation
Definition
Increase in General Price Value
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discouraged workers
Definition
workers who drop out of labor force
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minority teenagers
Definition
suffers greatest unemplyment rate
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the real interest rate
Definition
diffrence between nominal intrest rate and inflation primium
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consumer savings
Definition
Disposible income not consumed
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The average propensity to conso\ume
Definition
Friction of disposable income of a house hold
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the marginal propensity to consume
Definition
in disposable income a household plan to consume
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marginal propensity to save
Definition
The fration of change in disposable income that a household plans to save
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ONE
Definition
Sum of the marginal propensities to consume and save
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