Econ. Final Review

Final Exam Review

Unit One:  Economic Questions
Chpts. 1, 2, 16, 17
Scarcity
Opportunity costs
Production Possibility Curve
Factors of Production/ Economic Resources
Sunk Costs, social costs and social benefits
Scarcity leads to…specialization, division of labor, social interdependence, 
global interdependence, 
Capitalism, Communism/Socialism, Mercanitilism
Traditional, Command, Market Economies
Mixed Economies
Problems in the third world


Unit Two:  The Market Economy
Chpts.  3, 4, 5
Demand
Types of goods
Shifts in demand
Changes in the quantity demanded
PPINE
Price elasticity of demand
 Normal, Inferior, Substitute and Complementary goods
Utility
Diminishing Marginal Utility (or Returns)
Total Revenue Test
Supply 
Shifts in Supply
Changes in the quantity supplied
PGTENT
Price Elasticity of Supply
Diminishing Marginal Product
Profit Motive
Equilibrium Price
Shortages, surpluses
Price ceiling and floors
Total Cost
Marginal Cost
Fixed Cost
Marginal Product


Unit Three:  Competition
Chpts.  6, 7, 8, 18
Types of Businesses:  sole proprietor, partnerships, corporations
Pros and cons of all of these
Models of Competition:  perfect competition, monopolistic competition, 
oligopoly, monopoly
Supply and demand in the labor market
Monopsony
Labor Unions (closed shop, open shop, union shop)
Minimum Wage
NMAL or N. D.P.
Issues about Globalism
Outsourcing
Trade deficit
Trade surplus
Balance of Trade
Absolute Advantage
Comparative Advantage




Macroeconomics
Chpts. 10, 11
Aggregate Supply and demand
Four reasons for a shift in aggregate supply, and four reasons for a shift in 
aggregate demand
Supply shock
Complete Circular Flow of Money and Products
GDP = C + I + G + (x-m)
Real GDP
Inflation (cost-push and demand-pull)
Stagflation
Income:  personal distribution, functional distribution, per capita
Poverty
Lorenz Curve
Gini Index
Philips Curve
Laffer Curve
Types of  Unemployment


Fiscal Policy
Chpts. 12, 15
Roles of the Government
Taxation (justifications, types of taxes, specific taxes) 
Budgets 
deficits & debt
Demand-side economics (John Maynard Keynse)
Supply Side Economics (Jean-Baptiste Say)
Montarists


Monetary Policy
Chpts. 13, 14
Role of the Federal Reserve System
Money
Banking
Easy-money and tight money policies
Reserve Requirements
Discount Rates
Open-Market Operations




Graphs:
Microeconomic supply and demand
Price ceilings and floors
Surpluses and shortages
Labor Market Graphs
Minimum Wage graph
Aggregate supply and demand graphs
Lorenz curve
Gini Index
Philips Curve
Laffer Curve

Formulas:
Elasticity of demand
Marginal costs