As smartphones gained popularity, the _______ film cameras decreased along with the price.

TC, a former Air Force pilot, decides to start a helicopter tour company to provide customers with breathtaking views of the Rocky Mountains. He obtains a loan and purchases the necessary land, facilities, advertising, and a helicopter for his business. What important factor of production has he overlooked in creating his business?

When consumers spend their money to purchase Apple iPhones or computers with an AMD processor, or when they discontinue buying such items as DVDs, they are telling resource owners _______.

An executive at a U.S. lumber company uses growth in gross domestic product as one way to identify trends in industry lumber use, so he records the change in GDP for each year on a graph. However, the executive’s figures are considerably higher than those of the staff economist, who also has drawn a graph. This difference is most likely the result of _______.

In the brand new country of Genovia, businesses are free to sell any legal product they want in any manner they desire as long as it does not violate any laws or ordinances. A business is also free to decide what to produce, how to produce it, and at what price to sell it.  What type of economic system is employed in the new nation of Genovia?

Which of the following is not a measure of the economic health of a nation?

Chevron and ExxonMobil are two of the relatively few sellers in the oil- and gas-production industry. Due to the tremendous capital investment required to enter this industry, these companies are insulated significantly from the threat of new competitors and thus have considerable control over their prices. This market situation is referred to as a(n) _______.

Ga-ram works at an institutional bakery and is paid a wage set by the government. He does not like his job but is not allowed other options. Ga-ram must purchase necessities for his family at fixed prices. The country Ga-ram lives in can be described as a _______ economy.

_______ is a loose, subjective measure of how well off an individual or society is in terms of obtaining want-satisfying goods and services.

While local timber shortages were noted throughout New England in the 1870s/1880, by 2015, the area covered by forests throughout New England had rebounded.