ECON 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ceteris Paribus, Efficient-Market Hypothesis, Market Economy

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ECON 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ceteris Paribus, Efficient-Market Hypothesis, Market Economy

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Economy- a system for coordinating society"s productive activities. Economics- the social science that studies the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Market economy- an economy in which decisions about production and consumption are made by individual producers and consumers. Invisible hand- refers to the way in which the individual pursuit of self-interest can lead to good results of society as a whole. Market failure- when the individual pursuit of self interest leads to bad results for society as a whole. Economic growth- growing ability of the economy to produce goods/services. Macroeconomics- branch concerned with the overall ups and downs in the economy. Microeconomics- how people make decisions and how the decisions interact. Interaction of choices affect your choices and vise versa- a feature of most economic institutions. The result of this information are often quite different than what individuals intend. How you behave, impacts how others behave.

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1. A consequence of the economic problem of scarcity is that:

a. Choices have to be made about how resources are used.

b. There is never too much of any good or service produced.

c. The production of goods and services must be controlled by the government.

d. The production-possibilities curve is bowed outward.

2. Microeconomics is concerned with issues such as:

a. The level of inflation in the economy

b. The demand for bottled water by individuals.

c. Maintaining a strong level of economic growth.

d. All of the choices.

3. In economics, scarcity means that:

a. A shortage of a particular good will cause the price to fall

b. A production possibilities curve cannot accurately represent the tradeoff between two goods.

c. Society's desires exceed the want-satisfying capability of the resources available to satisfy those desires.

d. The market mechanism has failed

4. A city's decision to limit smoking in public areas is an example of

a. The invisible hand at work.

b. The market mechanism at work.

c. Market failure.

d. Government intervention

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Answer the following questions. True or False
1. Withdrawals include investment, government expenditures, and exports.
2. If the price in a market is increased below that at the midpoint along the demand curve, total revenue to the firm will decrease.
3. Decisions made by individuals as to what and how much of each other productive resources to supply and of what goods and services to buy is more characteristic of a market economy than a command economy such as the former Soviet Union's Communist economy.
4. The study of recessions and inflation is considered to be a topic in microeconomics rather than macroeconomics.
5. In a supply and demand graph for a market, the vertical axis or Y axis measures the price and the horizontal or x-axis measures the quantity demanded or supplied.
6. Withdrawals or leakages in the circular flow of economic activity include investment, government purchases of goods and services, and exports.
7. The law of demand results in nearly all demand curve graphically sloping downward into the right.
8. If a price of a good is $10 per unit and that causes the market for the good to have a surplus, scarcity does not exist in that market.
9. A point inside the production possibility curve / Frontier (closer to the origin) represents the efficient use of a country's productive resources.
10. So long as there is some opportunity costs associated with obtaining a good or service, no matter the price, scarcity is present.

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Part 1.Choose the correct answer of the following:

1.In a market economy, economic activity is guided by

a.Self-interest and prices

b.The government.

c.Corporations.

d. Central planners.

2. Which of the following decisions must be made by all economies?

a.How much to produce? When to produce? How much does it cost?

b.What to produce? How to produce? For whom to produce?

c.What is the price? Who will produce it? Who will consume it?

d. None of the above

3.Since the resources used in the production of goods and services are limited, society must:

a.Reduce the use of those resources

b.Try to get more resources

c.Make choices about how to use resources

d.Focus on their most abundant resource

4.Which of the following observations was made famous by Adam Smith in his book The Wealth of Nations?

a.Households and firms interacting in markets are guided by an "invisible hand" that leads them to desirable market outcomes.

b.There is no such thing as a free lunch.

c.People buy more when prices are low than when prices are high.

d. No matter how much people earn, they tend to spend more than they earn.

5.If real GDP increased by 2 percent, then

a.Government spending increased by 2 percent

b.The price level has increased by 2 percent

c.Real output/production has increased by 2 percent

d. The increase might have been caused by an increase in the price level or output, but we cannot tell for sure

6. Which of the following would show an efficient economy?

a.Uses the least costly amount of resources available

b.Has a small amount of people who do not work

c.Resources are used to make the most goods and services possible

d.None of the above

7.What is the type of unemployment that occurs when people take time to find a job?

a.cyclical

b.frictional

c.Disguised

d.structural

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ECON 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ceteris Paribus, Efficient-Market Hypothesis, Market Economy

ECON 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Economic Surplus, Perfect Competition, Market Failure

ECON 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ceteris Paribus, Efficient-Market Hypothesis, Market Economy

ECON 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Deadweight Loss, Price Floor, Economic Equilibrium

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