1. What is economics?
2. What questions to
economists attempt to answer?
3. What is scarcity?
4. How does the data
that social scientists (like economists) study differ from the data that
hard
scientists
(like physicists) study?
5. What does "opportunity
cost" mean?
6. What is the broken
window fallacy and describe a situation where it might take place (besides
the broken
window).
7. What happens when
two people make an exchange?
8. Is exchange always
mutually beneficial? Why or why not?
9. What does the production
possibilities frontier represent?
10. What does marginal opportunity
cost mean?
11. How does the production
possibilities frontier shift out over time and what does
that mean
when it does?
12. What is the law of increasing
marginal opportunity cost? Be sure to be able to explain it.
13. What are some of the ways
by which can categorize economies? (i.e. differences
in the rules of the game).
14. What is absolute advantage?
15. What is comparative advantage?
16. How does the concept of
comparative advantage relate to trade in general?
17. Who is Adam Smith?
18. Who is David Ricardo?
19. What book did Adam Smith
publish in 1776?
20. What was Adam Smith’s
main point in this book?
21. How did Adam Smith say
a country could increase productivity?
22. How do productivity, division
and specialization of labor, mutual interdependency,
and trade
all relate to one another?
23. What does marginal benefit
mean?
24. What does marginal cost
mean?