Identify the components of the economic process.

Identification should include

  • production and consumption
  • incentives, including the profit motive
  • tradeoffs, weighing the costs and benefits of alternatives
  • consumers
  • producers
  • market.

Process/Skill Questions:

  • What is the profit motive?
  • What is the economic goal of producers? Consumers?
  • What is revenue?
  • What incentives do producers have to meet consumers' desires?
  • Why must producers change their products to meet consumer demands?
  • What happens to price if production does not meet demand?