Economics Chapter 1: Everybody's Economics
Terms to Know:
Section 1: Why Bother about Economics?
- Economics is the study of the choices that individuals and societies make in the production, distribution, and consumption of goods.
Section 2: What is an Economy?
- An economy is any system for the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
Section 3: Economics & the Language of Economics
- Economists are scholars of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods within an economy.
- Macroeconomics is the study of national and international economics and how these major economies are affected by large-scale choices and public policies.
- Microeconomics is the study of specific components within a major economy and how the choices made by individuals, households, and businesses affect that economy.
- Economic models seek to show the relationships among the various components of an economy.
- A good is a tangible item that people want and for which they will pay.
- A service is an intangible good produced by labor which people expect to pay.
- Want is the human desire to have and use a certain good.
- A market is a mechanism that allows people to exchange goods so that buyers and seller can get what they are seeking for themselves.
- The supply is the quantity of a good for sale at a certain price under certain conditions or simply the amount of a good that is produced.
- The demand is the amount of a good that is bought at a certain price under certain conditions.