front 1 Economics is the study of | back 1 how society uses limited resources |
front 2 The knowledge and skills acquired by a worker through education and experiences is a description of which factor of production | back 2 human capital |
front 3 Which of the following is an example of a normative question | back 3 should Florida implement a state income tax to reduce its deficit? |
front 4 Economic models are used to | back 4 explore decision making by individuals, firms and other organizations and their outcomes |
front 5 The opportunity cost of something is | back 5 what you sacrifice because of the choice you make |
front 6 The trade offs made by the US government to fund the war in Iraq | back 6 represent what was potentially sacrificed to engage in the war |
front 7 People acting in their own self interest is the basis of the | back 7 principle of voluntary exchange |
front 8 according to the principle of diminishing returns, if the number of workers increased beyond the point of diminishing returns, then the additional worker | back 8 increases total output by less than the amount of previous workers |
front 9 If nominal salaries increase but real salaries fall, this means that | back 9 the purchasing power of money has decreased |
front 10 a change in the quantity demanded of a product is the result of a change in | back 10 the price of the product |
front 11 the quantity demanded of a product increases as | back 11 the price of the product falls |
front 12 In constructing demand curves, the ceteris paribus principle directs the economist to assume that | back 12 quantity changes don't affect prices |
front 13 the market demand curve | back 13 show the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity that all consumers together are willing to buy |
front 14 the law of demand can be explained as | back 14 the higher the price, the smaller the quantity demanded, ceteris paribus |
front 15 after the government decreased cigarette taxes in several Canadian provinces, demand for cigarettes ___________ in the provinces; shifting the demand curve to the ___________ | back 15 Increased;right |
front 16 a change in demand for cigarettes resulting from a decrease in taxes would normally create, ceteris paribus | back 16 an increase in the quantity supplied |