Equilibrium Price | | This is a simplified theory or simplified picture of what something is or how something works. |
Taxes | | Alternative choices people have when making an economic decision. |
Shortage | | This is when demand for a good/service doesn't change with a strong connection to other economic factors, such as price. |
Surplus | | This is a way of thinking about a problem that compares the cost of an action to the benefits received. |
Elastic Demand | | This is the price where the quantity demanded is equal to the quantity supplied. It's the only place where the price is stable. |
Inelastic Demand | | This is money people pay to the government. |
Adam Smith | | This is a measure of how a company responds to changes in demand. |
Elasticity of Supply | | This is a minimum price buyers are expected to pay for a product. |
Elasticity of Demand | | This is when demand for a good/service changes with a strong connection to other economic factors, such as price. |
Trade-offs | | This is the cost of the next best alternative use of time, money, or resources when one choice is made rather than another. |
Opportunity Cost | | This is the father of classical Economics who wrote the book The Wealth of Nations. |
A Decision-making Grid | | This is when there is not enough demand. |
A Cost-Benefit Analysis | | This is how other economic factors (like price, income, or available substitutes) affect demand for the good/service. |
A Model | | This is when there is not enough supply. |
A Price Ceiling | | This is a good way to list and then evaluate economic alternatives when a decision must be made. |
A Price Floor | | This is the cap on a price a government sets so the price cannot go up to equilibrium. |