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This document is a collection of exam relevant key terms for the second period of 2019/2020 The Principles and Practice of Economics Economic Methods and Economic Questions Optimization: Doing the Best You Can Demand, Supply, and Equilibrium Consumers and Incentives Sellers and Inc...

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BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS


Collection of Key Terms
Based on the book of Economics by Acemoglu, D;

Laibson, D & List, J. A.; second edition.

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Preliminary Remarks:

This document is a collection of exam relevant key terms for the second period of 2019/2020 based on
the book Economics by Acemoglu, D; Laibson, D & List, J. A.; second edition. Not relevant key terms
are left out.

If you are trying to find a word, just click on a chapter in the table of contents or press command+F to
search for a specific word.

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Table of Contents:

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Chapter I – The Principles and Practice of Economics

Term Explanation

Economic agent Individual or group that makes choices



Scarce resource Things that people want, where the quantity
that people want exceeds the quantity that is
available



Scarcity Situation where people have unlimited
wants in a world of limited resources



Economics Study of how agents choose to allocate
scarce resources and how those choices
affect society



Positive economics What people actually do – objective
statements



Normative economics What people ought to do – subjective
judgments



Microeconomics Study of how individuals, households, firms
and governments make choices and how
those choices affect prices, the allocation of
resources and the well-being of other agents



Macroeconomics Study of the economy as a whole (economy-
wide phenomena)



Optimization Picking the best feasible option, given
whatever (limited) information, knowledge,

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