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Module 10 - Understanding Markets and Market Structure

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Activity 1 : : Activity 2 : : Activity 3 : : Activity 4 : : Activity 5

Activity 2: Topics and Concepts

Understanding Market Structures

  • competitive firm
  • deadweight loss    
  • monopolistic competition    
  • monopoly
  • natural monopoly
  • pure monopoly
  • anti-trust laws
  • marginal revenue
  • marginal cost
  • mutual interdependence
  • monopoly profit
  • cartel
  • total cost
  • law of diminishing returns
  • constant returns
  • economic inefficiency
  • perfect competition    
  • oligopoly    
  • patent    
  • prisoner's dilemma    
  • product differentiation  
  • economic profit
  • trade barriers/barriers to entry
  • deregulation
  • economies of scale/scope
  • average cost
  • opportunity cost
  • fixed/variable inputs

Understanding a Free Enterprise Economy

  • entrepreneur
  • capital
  • interest
  • discounting
  • supply and demand for funds
  • investment
  • risk bearing
  • employment
  • economic growth
  • economic profit
  • profit
  • innovation
  • invention
  • time-value of money
  • economic rent

Understanding Labor Markets

  • unemployment
  • natural rate of unemployment
  • labor union
  • labor market
  • mediation
  • collective bargaining
  • arbitration
  • wage rate
  • productivity
  • wage differential
  • minimum wage law
  • economic rent
  • marginal product
  • marginal revenue product
  • human capital
  • noncompeting groups
  • real wages
  • factor market
  • derived demand
  • backward-bending supply curve
  • dual labor markets
  • American Federation of Labor
  • Wagner Act
  • National Labor Relations Board
  • Congress of Industrial Organizations

Create a visual schematic of these terms using either concept maps, notes, or flash cards. Enter your definitions of key terms, definitions, concepts and vocabulary into your notebook or computer file.

Activity 1 : : Activity 2 : : Activity 3 : : Activity 4

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