Markets and market structures

ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

FACTORS OF PRODUCTION

WHAT IS ECONOMICS ABOUT

1. What is economics?

2. What does economics study?

3. What are the key terms of economics?

4. What does economics deal with?

5. What are economic products?

6. What is the difference between goods and services?

7. What are consumer goods intended for?

8. What are capital goods?

9. What does the term “value” mean in economics?

10. What does the term “wealth” mean in economics?

11. What is counted as wealth?

12. Why does utility of consumer goods vary from one person to another?

13. What is country’s total worth?

1. What is the reason people cannot satisfy all their wants and needs?

2. What are the factors of production?

3. What does the term “land” mean?

4. What do economists think of land as a factor of production?

5. What is labor in economic theory?

6. What is the national labor force?

7. What does the size of labor depend on?

8. What categories does labor fall into?

9. What kind of work do unskilled workers perform?

10. What category do workers with mechanical ability fall into?

11. What kind of work are skilled workers able to do?

12. What is professional labor?

13. What is a wage rate?

14. What are the factors affecting the wage rate?

15. What is the third factor of production?

16. What is the difference between physical and financial capital?

17. When does production take place?

18. What is entrepreneurship?

19. What role do the entrepreneurs play?

1. What do all societies have in common?

2. What does the survival of any society depend on?

3. What is an economic system?

4. What are all societies faced with?

5. What determines the type of any economic system?

6. What are the major kinds of economic systems?

7. How are the main economic questions decided in a society with a traditional economy?

8. What are the main advantage and disadvantage of a traditional economy?

9. What is a command economy?

10. What is the major advantage of a command economy?

11. What disadvantages does the command economy have?

12. What is a market economy?

13. How are the basic economic questions answered in a market economy?

14. What is the main incentive of a market economy?

15. What advantages does a market economy have?

1. What was a market in ancient time?

2. What is a modern market?

3. When is a market created?

4. How do different markets operate?

5. How do economists classify markets?

6. What is a market structure defined by?

7. What are the names of different market structures?

8. What is pure competition?

9. What is monopolistic competition?

10. What separates monopolistic competition from pure competition?

11. What is oligopoly as a market structure?

12. What is monopoly?

MARKET CATEGORIES: DEMAND, SUPPLY, PRICE

1. What is demand?

2. What does the law of demand state?

3. How do prices affect the quantities demanded?

4. What is demand elasticity?

5. When is demand elastic?

6. When is demand inelastic?

7. What factors is demand influenced by?

8. What is supply?

9. What does the law of supply state?

10. How much of a product will suppliers offer for sale at different prices?

11. What factors is supply determined by?

12. What categories of costs is it important for a business to analyze?

13. What role do prices play in a market economy?

14. What two important economic functions do prices perform?

15. What characteristics do prices have in a market economy?

16. Why do buyers and sellers have the opposite intentions and hopes?

17. When does the adjustment process take place?

18. What is market equilibrium?

19. What messages do price increases and decreases send to producers of goods and services?

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