BASIC ECONOMIC CONCEPTS Flashcards
One who manages the households
Oikonomos
The study how society manages its scarce resources
Economics
Two central economic problems / individual economizing problems :
Scarcity of Resources and Multiplicity of wants and needs
Focuses on facts, Cause and effect, It avoids valued judgement, Concerns what is
Positive
Opinionated, incorporates valued judgement, ought or should
Normative
Father of Economics
Adam Smith
Book of Adam smith
Wealth of Nation 1776
Restrict options demand sources, The basic of all economic activities, Reason why opportunity costs arises
Scarcity
Which you forego or what are you willing to give up when you make a decision or choice
Foregone alternative
What a person loses by choosing one opportunity instead of another
Opportunity Costs
Refers to the value of what is given up in order to produce that additional unit
Marginal Costs
Refers to what people are willing to give up in order to obtain one more unit of good
Marginal Benefit
Is concern with the behavior of individual units, households, factors of production and firms
Microeconomics
Is concern with the economy as a whole
Macroeconomics
3 basic economic problems
- What are the goods produce & how much?
- How are the goods produce?
- For whom are the goods produce?
4 factors of production:
- Land
- Labor
- Capital
- Entrepreneurial ability or Entrepreneur