Chapter 7 - Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets

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consumer surplus

The increase in ________ of existing buyers is the reduction in the amount they pay.

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Free markets

________ allocate the supply of goods to the buyers who value them most highly, as measured by their willingness to pay.

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Welfare

________ economics- the study of how the allocation of resources affects the economic well- being.

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Equality

________- the property of distributing economic prosperity uniformly among the members of society.

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Efficiency

________- the property of a resource allocation of maximizing the total surplus received by all members of society.

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Producer surplus

________ is used to measure the well- being of sellers in much the same way consumer surplus is used to measure the well- being of buyers.

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Consumer surplus

________- the amount a buyer is willing to pay for a good minus the amount the buyer actually pays for it.

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Producer surplus

________- the amount a seller paid for a good minus the sellers cost of providing it.

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Free markets

________ allocate the demand for goods to the sellers who can produce them at the lowest cost.

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consumer surplus

The difference between buyers willingness to pay and the market price is each buyers ________.

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Free markets

________ produce the number of goods that maximize the sum of consumer and producer surplus.

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