Unit 1 vocabulary Economics

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vocabulary terms used in unit one economics
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1. Market The place where consumers and producers comes together to make business flow
2. Demand The wants by consumers
Law of Demand states that other factors being constant (cetris peribus), price and quantity demand of any good and service are inversely related to each other.
Supply Object made by the producer to sell
Law of supply fundamental principle of economic theory which states that, all else equal, an increase in price results in an increase in quantity supplied.
Equilibrium Price The equal balance price between the producer and consumer for the product
Price Ceiling government controlled price on a product
Price Floor government- or group-imposed price control or limit on how low a price can be charged for a product
1. Price Elasticity of Demand The degree to which the quantity demanded for a good changes in response to a change in price can be influenced by a number of factors.
Elastic Demand shows the response of economic growth with the product given
Cross elasticity of Demand measures the responsiveness of the demand for a good to a change in the price of another good
Substitute Goods 2 goods that can be used for the same person
Complement Goods 2 goods that go well with each other
Income elasticity of Demand measures the responsiveness of the demand for a good to a change in the income of the people demanding the good, ceteris paribus
Normal Goods any good that which demand increase when income increases.
Inferior Goods a good that decreases when income increases.
Price Elasticity of Supply measure used in economics to show the responsiveness, or elasticity, of the quantity supplied of a good or service to a change in its price
Market Failure when the market of growth fails
Positive externalities Benefit enjoyed by a third party in the PPC
Negative Externalities when ones does not benefit from the PPC
Public goods. product that one individual can consume without reducing its availability to another individual
Merit goods the government feels that people will under-consume
Demeirt Goods good or service whose consumption is considered unhealthy, degrading, or otherwise socially undesirable
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