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Ap Economics Assignment

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AP Economics
September 2013
Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science
Chapter 1: The Power of Markets
-The two basic assumptions that economists make about individuals and firms are that individuals act to make themselves as well off as possible, and that firms attempt to maximize profits.
-The role and significance of prices in the market economy has to do with supply and demand. If there are the same amount of buyers as products, the price will settle. If there are more buyers than products, the price of the product will rise. And, if there are more products than buyers, the price of the product will decrease. This occurs until the supply of the product matches the demand of the product.
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Chapter 7: Financial Markets
-The get-rich-quick schemes violate the most basic principles of economics because the rules for investing successfully denote a slow, steady accumulation of wealth with setbacks along the way rather than a quick windfall (Wheelan 149).
-The advice about investing in the stock market that I found most interesting was that the longer you hold your investments, the greater the probability is of them working.
Chapter 8: The Power of Organized Interests
-Mohair farmers have earned a subsidy from the federal government for decades because the mohair farmers can get large payments from the government without taxpayers ever really noticing because the farmers who get the subsidy care a lot about it, while the rest of us taxpayers (paying mere pennies extra in taxes) do not really care. And, “any politician with a preference for job security can calculate that a vote for the mohair subsidy will earn the strong support of the mohair farmers while costing nothing among other voters” (Wheelan 177).
Chapter 9: Keeping Score
-The nation’s GDP is a good measure of its economic well being and progress because it represents the total value of all goods and services produced in an economy, and what a country produces and what it consumes are nearly identical.
-The nation’s GDP

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