Principles of Economics

Midterm

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Economics is concerned with
Allocation of limited resources among unlimited wants
Scarce resources are resources
That we pay a price for them
Land includes
The land and all the natural resources on the land and under the land
Capital in economics mean
Only physical tools of production
Which is part of the capital in economics
A calculator owned by a student
U.s. economy is a
Mixed economy
Price paid to entrepreneur(企業家) is called
Profit
Price paid to capital is called
Interest
Economic resource are
Labor, land, capital and entrepreneur
Adam Smith was
The founding father of the free market system
PPF shows
The maximum amount of different goods and services that a country can produce using its limited resources
A point to the right of PPF IS
The maximum amount of different goods and services that a country can produce using its limited resources
A point to the right of ppf is
Not feasible
A point inside ppf is
Is efficient and feasible
The slope(斜面) of the ppf at any point represents the
Relative price of the two goods presented by ppf