1.0 Circular Flow Practice Activity
1.0 Circular Flow Practice Activity
1.0 Circular Flow Practice Activity
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6. What determines the amount of income a household will earn in the resource market?
Why do some households earn higher incomes than others?
Welker’s Wikinomics practice activities
7. What determines the amount of money a firm will earn in the product market? Why do
some firms earn so much more money than others in a market economy?
8. What is the goal of a household in a market economy? Based on this simple goal, what
is the best way for a household to achieve it?
9. What is the goal of a firm in a market economy? How can a firm best achieve this goal?
10. What makes the exchanges that take place in a market economy “mutually beneficial”?
11. What role does money play in the circular flow model?
13. What role or roles do you think the government should play in a market economy?
14. What would happen to the circular flow of a nation’s economy if the nation opened up to
free, international trade with the rest of the world?