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Economics Unit Two



Completion
Complete each sentence or statement.
 

1. 

Capitalism only works if there is ___________________________________.
 

 

2. 

Give an example of a franchise.

____________________________________________________________________
 

 

3. 

Copyright laws have been in the news a lot lately, can you give an example?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 

 

4. 

The Law Of Demand
People will want ___________________ products at ____________________ prices and _____________________ products at _______________________ prices.
 

 

5. 

The Law of Supply
If prices are high, suppliers will offer ____________________ quantities for sale.
If prices are low, suppliers will offer ____________________  quantities for sale.
 

 

6. 

Price is the result of the interaction of ____________________ and _______________.
 

 

7. 

List three problems that come about because of rationing.

1)

2)

3)
 

 

8. 

To replace a price system adaquately, yo need to create another _________________.
 

 

9. 

Who is Milton Friedman?

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
 

 

10. 

The market talking:

A high price signals producers to produce _______________ and consumers to buy ________________. A low price signals producers to produce _________________ and consumers to buy _____________________.
 

 

Matching
 
 
a.
capitalism
k.
Clayton Anti-trust
b.
laissez faire
l.
demand
c.
monopoly
m.
fixed cost
d.
oligopoly
n.
variable cost
e.
price fixing
o.
break even point
f.
franchise
p.
total cost
g.
patent
q.
surplus
h.
copyright
r.
shortage
i.
trusts
s.
rationing
j.
Sherman Anti-Trust
t.
supply
 

11. 

law that made monopolies illegal
 

12. 

gives the author or artist the right to publish, sell or reporduce for 50+ years
 

13. 

gives exclusive rights to manufacture, use or sell and new and useful art, machine or composition of matter
 

14. 

economic system based on private ownership
 

15. 

outlaws price discrimination
 

16. 

when a business or person controls almost all of the market place
 

17. 

illegally charging the same amount as your competitors
 

18. 

gives a company the exclusive right to do business in a certain location
 

19. 

no government regulation....hands off, buyer beware!
 

20. 

a group of companies going together to form a monopoly
 

21. 

a market situation where there are only a few very large sellers of a given economic product
 

22. 

the desire of a product, but MUST have the ability and willingness to pay
 

23. 

items  that are offered for sale at all possible prices
 

24. 

also called overhead....the basic expenses
 

25. 

the sum of fixed and variable costs
 

26. 

the amount of output a busness needs to sell in order to cover it’s total costs
 

27. 

a situation when the quantity supplied is greater than the quantity demanded.
 

28. 

when the government tells people what they can purchase and how much...
 

29. 

the quantity demanded is greater than the quantity supplied
 

30. 

cost that changes with the business rate of operation or output
 



 
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