Topical Study Guide for Economics Unit 1 Test
Topical Study Guide for Economics Unit 1 Test
Fundamentals of Economics
To adequately prepare for the upcoming Unit 1 test, study your class notes, ch. 1-3 in your online textbook, powerpoint notes on the blog, and any worksheets completed for the unit. Pay particular attention to the following topics from Chps.1-3:
Need … Want … Economics (Basic Definition) … Goods … Services … Scarcity … Difference between scarcity and shortage … The Factors of Production: Land, Labor, Capital (both physical and human) … Entrepreneurs and their role in our economy … Trade-offs (individual, business, and society) … Guns or Butter … Opportunity Cost … Understand how to use a Decision-Making Grid … Thinking at the Margin … Making a Decision at the Margin … Cost and Benefit at the Margin … Production Possibilities Curve … Production Possibilities Frontier … Efficiency … Underutilization Cost … Law of Increasing Cost … Three Key Economic Questions … Factor Payments … General economic goals that most economic systems try to address … Economic Efficiency … Economic Freedom … Patriotism … Economic Security and Predictability … Safety Net … Economic Equity … Economic Growth and Innovation … Standard of Living … Additional Goals … Economies and Values … Traditional Economies … Market Economies … Command Economies (Centrally-Planned Economies) … Mixed Economies … What is a “market”? … Why markets exist … Specialization … Free Market Economy … Circular Flow Model … The players in a free market system: Households and Firms … The Factor Market … Profit … Product Market … The Self-Regulating Nature of the Marketplace … Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations … Self-Interest … Competition … Incentives … The “Invisible Hand” … Advantages of a Free Market Economy … How is a Centrally-Planned Economy organized? … Government Control of Factor Resources and Production … Socialism … Communism … The Former Soviet Union … Problems of Centrally-Planned Economies … Mixed Economies … A Circular Flow Model of a Mixed Economy … Comparing Mixed Economies…
NOTE: A SUGGESTION: DON’T RELY SOLELY ON NOTES YOU’VE TAKEN IN CLASS. BE SURE THAT YOU DO YOUR UNIT READINGS. READING IS FUNDAMENTAL TO HELPING YOU GET A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF ECONOMICS, PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INTERPRETATION, AND ULTIMATELY HELP YOU TO BECOME A BEATTER READER. TAKING NOTES FROM THE ECONOMICS BOOK AND/OR ANSWERING ONLINE TEXTBOOK GUIDED QUESTION I HELPLFUL FOR REVIEW AS WELL> HAVE YOU READ THEM? HOW CAREFULLY?
HERE’S THE SUGGESTION – OVER THE WEEKEND, SIT DOWN WITH YOUR CLASSNOTES, YOUR TEXTBOOK, AND THIS STUDY GUIDE. IF YOU DON’T HAVE CLASSNOTES ON A TOPIC THAT YOU SEE HERE, TAKE NOTES OUT OF YOUR TEXTBOOK.
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