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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{2} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.32 cm} x{5.68 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 1 Terms}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Economics & The study of how a society chooses to use scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants and needs. \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \seqsplit{Microeconomics} & The study of a single factor of an economy - such as individuals, households, businesses, and industries \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Macroeconomics} & The study of the economy as a whole or one of its principal sectors \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Consumer & Individuals or groups that purchase and use goods to satisfy their wants and needs. \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Producer & Individuals or businesses that create goods and services to meet consumer demand. \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Goods & A tangible object or material that can be purchased to satisfy human wants or needs. \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Services & An intangible action or activity that is performed for a fee to satisfy human needs and wants. \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 4) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} Resources & Anything used to produce goods or services \tn % Row Count 26 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Technology & Scientific and technical techniques used to produce existing products more efficiently or of higher quality \tn % Row Count 30 (+ 4) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.32 cm} x{5.68 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 1 Terms (cont)}} \tn % Row 9 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Entrepreneurship} & The organizational abilities and risk taking involved in starting a new business or introducing a new product to consumers \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{white} Scarcity & The fundamental condition of economics that results from the combination of limited resources and unlimited wants. \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 5) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \seqsplit{Specialization} & The focus of a worker on only one or a few aspects of production in order to improve efficiency \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 4) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{white} Money & Any item, typically currency, that is commonly accepted in exchange for goods, services, or settling debts. \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 4) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Credit & A form of exchange that allows consumers to use items with a promise of repayment over a specified time \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{3.12 cm} x{4.88 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 4 Terms}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Law of Supply & As the price of a good increases, the quantity supplied increases, and vice versa \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Cost of Production & The total cost of materials, labors, and other inputs required in the manufacture of a product \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Tax & A required payment to a local, state, or national government, usually made on some regular basis \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Law of Diminishing Returns & The principle that as more of one input is added to a fixed supply of other resources, productivity will increase up to a point, after which the marginal product will diminish \tn % Row Count 20 (+ 8) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Marginal Cost & The cost of producing one additional unit of output \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.96 cm} x{5.04 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 6 Terms}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Monopoly & A market in which a somgle seller exercises exclusive or nearly exclusive control over a particular good or service \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Oligopoly & A market in which a few large sellers control most of the production of a good or service \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Collusion & An effort by producers or sellers of a particular product to secretly set production levels or prices \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 5) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Cartel & A group of producers or sellers of a certain good or service who unite to control prices, output, and market share \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 5) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Antitrust Legislation & Federal and state laws that regulate big business and labor unions to prevent or dismantle monopolies \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 5) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Product \seqsplit{Differentiation} & An attempt by a seller in monopolistic competition to convince buyers that its product is different from and superior to the nearly identical products of competitors \tn % Row Count 31 (+ 7) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.64 cm} x{5.36 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 2 Terms}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Traditional Economy & An economy in which production is based on customs and traditions. \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Market Economy & An economy in which the government has little to say in what, how, and for whom goods are produced and in which the factors of 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% Row Count 33 (+ 4) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.64 cm} x{5.36 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 2 Terms (cont)}} \tn % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Private Property & Property that is owned by individuals or businesses , rather than by the government \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Income & Money received, especially on a regular basis, for working or through investments \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Standard of Living & People's economic well-being as determined by the quantity of goods and services they consume in a given time period. \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 5) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.64 cm} x{5.36 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 3 Terms}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Law of Demand & As the price of a good decreases, the quantity demanded increases, and vice versa \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Income Effect & The effect that a change in an item's price has on consumers' ability to purchase goods. \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Substitution Effect & Consumers' tendency to substitute a lower-priced good for a similar, higher-priced one \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Demand Curve & A graphic representation of a demand schedule, showing the relationship between the price of an item and the quantity demanded during a given time period. \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 6) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Elasticity of Demand & The degree to which changes in price of a good or service affect quantity de,amded \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{8.4cm}{x{2.48 cm} x{5.52 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{8.4cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Chapter 5 Terms}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Market Failure & A flaw in a price system that occurs when some costs have not been accounted for and therefore are not properly distributed \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 5) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Market Equilibrium & The point at which the quantity demanded and the quantity supplied for a product are equal at the same price \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Surplus & When the quantity supplied exceeds the quantity demanded at a given price \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Shortage & When the quantity demanded exceeds the quantity supplied at a given price \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 3) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Price Ceiling & A government regulation that sets a maximum price for a particular good \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Rationing & A system by which a government or 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