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The Ch. 5 Sec. 1 Quiz is on Wednesday.
The Ch. 5 Sec. 2 Quiz is on Thursday.
The Ch. 5 Sec. 3 Quiz is on Friday.
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Chapter 7: Market Structures
Ch. 7 Sec. 1 Review
In-class assignment, with a partner, use the graphic organizer to identify the characteristics of imperfect competition.
Preview
Section 2: Market Failures
There are five common forms of market failures. The first is inadequate competition, which can lead to oligopolies or monopolies. The second is inadequate information, which denies people an awareness of better prices or opportunities in other markets. The third is resource immobility, which occurs when factors of production cannot or refuse to move to other markets. The fourth is the failure of the market to provide public goods. The fifth is the presence of externalities, positive or negative economic side effects to uninvolved third parties.
Section Preview
Content Vocabulary
market failure
Introduction to Market Failure, 5:07
In-class assignment, with a partner, answer and fill in the following.
When does a market failure occur?
The mnemonic device may aid your memory.
Remember: PIMM FACED
Define each of the following parts of the mnemonic.
P-ublic good
I-nequality
M-erit good
M-onopoly
F-actor Immobility
A-griculture
C-yclical Instability
E-xternality
D-emerit Good
public goods
Public Goods, 3:38
In-class assignment, with a partner, answer or define the following.
What are private goods?
Define excludibility.
Define rivalry.
What are public goods?
Define nonrivalry.
What example illustrates a public good?
Who pays for a public good?
What is free ridership?
What is the government's role?
What happens when you can't prevent people from consuming a commodity, even if they haven't paid for it? Who ends up providing these kinds of goods and services?
externality
In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following questions.
When do externalities occur?
What do they involve?
What is involved in negative externalities?
What does the example of a cell phone demonstrate?
Are there any costs to others when a cell phone is used while driving?
Do users consider all the costs?
What entity is involved as a result?
What is the government solution to negative externalities?
What about positive externalities?
What field is an example of positive externality?
What is the government solution to a positive externality?
Externalities, 7:39
negative externality
positive externality
Academic Vocabulary
Ch. 7 Sec. 2 Reading Strategy
In-class assignment, with a partner, complete the graphic organizer about why maintaining adequate competition is a worthwhile goal. Use the graphic organizer to list some of the effects of competition.
Enron
enron the smartest guys in the room - Trailer, 2:04
In-class assignment, with a partner, answer the following.
What was Enron's fatal flaw?
How would you characterize the type of people at Enron?
What did they find to make a profit?
What is the corporate crime of the century?
Types of Market Failures
Market Failures, 3:13
What is the definition of a market failure?
What are externalities?
Recall the cell phone example from externalities.
What is the second type of market failure?
What are two examples?
What is the next type of market failure?
What is one example?
What is the fourth type of market failure?
What is one example?
Inadequate Competition
Inadequate Information
Resource Immobility
Did You Know?
Expensive Memories
Sherman Antitrust Act
Public Goods
Externalities
Reading Check
Analyzing
What type of market failure do you think is most harmful to the economy?
Dealing With Externalities
Correcting Negative Externalities
Correcting Positive Externalities
Reading Check
Explaining
If externalities are positive, why should they be corrected?
BusinessWeek Newsclip
Lord of the Rings
Ch. 7 Sec. 2 Review
In-class assignment, with a partner, use the graphic organizer to identify and describe both types of externalities.
Section 3 The Role of Government
The role of government has expanded to preserve competitive markets. This has taken the form of antitrust legislation that outlaws trusts and various forms of price discrimination. As a result, the economy has been modified so that it is now a mixture of different market structures, different forms of business organizations, and some degree of government regulation.
Content Vocabulary
trust
price discrimination
cease and desist order
public disclosure
Academic Vocabulary
Ch. 7 Sec. 3 Reading Strategy
In-class assignment, with a partner, complete the graphic organizer by describing how governments try to avoid market failures.
Products in the News
Electric Bass Recalled
Maintain Competition
Antitrust Legislation
Government Regulation
Reading Check
Describing
Why are some government regulations beneficial for consumers?
Improve Economic Efficiency
Promote Transparency
Provide Public Goods
Reading Check
Interpreting
What negative things could happen in a market without disclosure?
Modified Free Enterprise
Reading Check
Summarizing
Why do we use the term modified to describe the American free enterprise economy?
Ch. 7 Sec. 3 Review
In-class assignment, with a partner, use the graphic organizer to identify how the federal government can maintain competition and improve economic efficiency.
Case Study Pixar and Disney
References
Ch. 5 Prep
Chapter 5 Supply Multiple Choice Quiz
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Chapter 5 Puzzle
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Chapter 5 Supply Flashcards
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Ch. 6 Prep
Chapter 6: Prices and Decision Making
Multiple Choice Quiz
Cf. http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078747643/student_view0/unit2/chapter6/self-check_quizzes.html
ePuzzle Concentration
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Academic, Glossary, People/Places/Events
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Weather Report-Teen Town, 3:43
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Tuesday HW
1. What would happen if consumers did not have easy access to information about products and services?
2. p. 170, What conditions for perfect competition are met in this photograph, and how?
3. p. 171, What would happen if the equilibrium price increased to $22.50?
