Description
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Term
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Research dealing in numbers such as mathematical data
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Quantitative Research
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A subjective statement that relies on opinion and carries a value judgement
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Normative Statement
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When income and quantity demanded move in the opposite direction
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Negative Income Elasticity
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What has a coefficient of zero?
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Perfectly Inelastic Demand
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When a change in one variable causes a change in another variable in the opposite direction
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Inverse Relationship
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A good or service for which there is no marginal (additional) cost of providing it to an additional consumer such as a television broadcast
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Non-Rivalrous
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An economy in which production is principally determined by consumers
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Market Economy
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The degree of responsiveness of demand to a change in income
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Income Elasticity of Demand
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The total number of units purchased by all consumers at a given price in a given period
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Market Demand
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A product that is both excludable and rivalrous
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Private Good
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The process of breaking down production into a sequence of stages with workers assigned to a particular stage
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Division of Labour
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An expansion in the productive capacity of an economy
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Potential Economic Growth
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When a change in the price of one good provokes a smaller change in the demand of another
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Relative Cross Inelasticity
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The ability for something to be maintained at a certain rate or level
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Sustainability
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A decrease in demand coupled with a rise in price
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Contraction in Demand
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A theoretical situation in which any attempt to make one person better off would make another worse off
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Perfect Efficiency
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What has a coefficient above zero but less than one?
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Relatively Inelastic Demand
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A product that is in competitive demand with another product
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Substitute
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Human-made products used in the production of other goods and services
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Capital Goods
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When a percentage change in price causes a change in the quantity demanded of the exact same percentage
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Unit Elasticity of Demand
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