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Fundamental Economic Concepts
SSEF1 The student will explain why limited productive resources and unlimited wants result in
scarcity, opportunity costs, and tradeoffs for individuals, businesses, and governments.
a. Define scarcity as a basic condition that exists when unlimited wants exceed limited productive
resources.
b. Define and give examples of productive resources (factors of production) (e.g., land (natural),
labor (human), capital (capital goods), entrepreneurship).
c. List a variety of strategies for allocating scarce resources.
d. Define opportunity cost as the next best alternative given up when individuals, businesses, and
governments confront scarcity by making choices.
SSEF2 The student will give examples of how rational decision making entails comparing the
marginal benefits and the marginal costs of an action.
a. Illustrate by means of a production possibilities curve the trade offs between two options.
b. Explain that rational decisions occur when the marginal benefits of an action equal or exceed
the marginal costs.
SSEF3 The student will explain how specialization and voluntary exchange between buyers and
sellers increase the satisfaction of both parties.
a. Give examples of how individuals and businesses specialize.
b. Explain that both parties gain as a result of voluntary, non-fraudulent exchange.
SSEF4 The student will compare and contrast different economic systems and explain how they
answer the three basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce, and for whom to
produce.
a. Compare command, market, and mixed economic systems with regard to private ownership,
profit motive, consumer sovereignty, competition, and government regulation.
b. Evaluate how well each type of system answers the three economic questions and meets the
broad social and economic goals of freedom, security, equity, growth, efficiency, and stability.
SSEF5 The student will describe the roles of government in a market economy.
a. Explain why government provides public goods and services, redistributes income, protects
property rights, and resolves market failures.
b. Give examples of government regulation and deregulation and their effects on consumers and
producers.
SSEF6 The student will explain how productivity, economic growth, and future standards of
living are influenced by investment in factories, machinery, new technology, and the health,
education, and training of people.
a. Define productivity as the relationship of inputs to outputs.
b. Give illustrations of investment in equipment and technology and explain their relationship to
economic growth.
c. Give examples of how investment in education can lead to a higher standard of living.
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Microeconomic Concepts
SSEMI1 The student will describe how households, businesses, and governments are
interdependent and interact through flows of goods, services, and money.
a. Illustrate by means of a circular flow diagram, the Product market; the Resource (factor)
market; the real flow of goods and services between and among businesses, households, and
government; and the flow of money.
b. Explain the role of money as a medium of exchange.
SSEMI2 The student will explain how the Law of Demand, the Law of Supply, prices, and profits
work to determine production and distribution in a market economy.
a. Define the Law of Supply and the Law of Demand.
b. Describe the role of buyers and sellers in determining market clearing price.
c. Illustrate on a graph how supply and demand determine equilibrium price and quantity.
d. Explain how prices serve as incentives in a market economy.
SSEMI3 The student will explain how markets, prices, and competition influence economic
behavior.
a. Identify and illustrate on a graph factors that cause changes in market supply and demand.
b. Explain and illustrate on a graph how price floors create surpluses and price ceilings create
shortages.
c. Define price elasticity of demand and supply.
SSEMI4 The student will explain the organization and role of business and analyze the four
types of market structures in the U.S. economy.
a. Compare and contrast three forms of business organization—sole proprietorship, partnership,
and corporation.
b. Explain the role of profit as an incentive for entrepreneurs.
c. Identify the basic characteristics of monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, and pure
competition.
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Macroeconomic Concepts
SSEMA1 The student will illustrate the means by which economic activity is measured.
a. Explain that overall levels of income, employment, and prices are determined by the spending
and production decisions of households, businesses, government, and net exports.
b. Define Gross Domestic Product (GDP), economic growth, unemployment, Consumer Price
Index (CPI), inflation, stagflation, and aggregate supply and aggregate demand.
c. Explain how economic growth, inflation, and unemployment are calculated.
d. Identify structural, cyclical, and frictional unemployment.
e. Define the stages of the business cycle; include peak, contraction, trough, recovery, expansion
as well as recession and depression.
f. Describe the difference between the national debt and government deficits.
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SSEIN1 The student will explain why individuals, businesses, and governments trade goods and
services.
a. Define and distinguish between absolute advantage and comparative advantage.
b. Explain that most trade takes place because of comparative advantage in the production of a
good or service.
c. Explain the difference between balance of trade and balance of payments.
SSEIN2 The student will explain why countries sometimes erect trade barriers and sometimes
advocate free trade.
a. Define trade barriers as tariffs, quotas, embargoes, standards, and subsidies.
b. Identify costs and benefits of trade barriers over time.
c. List specific examples of trade barriers.
d. List specific examples of trading blocks such as the EU, NAFTA, and ASEAN.
e. Evaluate arguments for and against free trade.
SSEIN3 The student will explain how changes in exchange rates can have an impact on the
purchasing power of individuals in the United States and in other countries.
a. Define exchange rate as the price of one nation’s currency in terms of another nation’s
currency.
b. Locate information on exchange rates.
c. Interpret exchange rate tables.
d. Explain why, when exchange rates change, some groups benefit and others lose.
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Personal Finance Economics
SSEPF1 The student will apply rational decision making to personal spending and saving
choices.
a. Explain that people respond to positive and negative incentives in predictable ways.
b. Use a rational decision making model to select one option over another.
c. Create a savings or financial investment plan for a future goal.
SSEPF2 The student will explain that banks and other financial institutions are businesses that
channel funds from savers to investors.
a. Compare services offered by different financial institutions.
b. Explain reasons for the spread between interest charged and interest earned.
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d. Evaluate a variety of savings and investment options; include stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
SSEPF3 The student will explain how changes in monetary and fiscal policy can have an impact
on an individual’s spending and saving choices.
a. Give examples of who benefits and who loses from inflation.
b. Define progressive, regressive, and proportional taxes.
c. Explain how an increase in sales tax affects different income groups.
SSEPF4 The student will evaluate the costs and benefits of using credit.
a. List factors that affect credit worthiness.
b. Compare interest rates on loans and credit cards from different institutions.
c. Explain the difference between simple and compound interest rates.
SSEPF5 The student will describe how insurance and other risk-management strategies protect
against financial loss.
a. List various types of insurance such as automobile, health, life, disability, and property.
b. Explain the costs and benefits associated with different types of insurance; include deductibles,
premiums, shared liability, and asset protection.
SSEPF6 The student will describe how the earnings of workers are determined in the
marketplace.
a. Identify skills that are required to be successful in the workplace.
b. Explain the significance of investment in education, training, and skill development.
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