EVALUATE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCARCITY Flashcards
One of the most fundamental concepts in economics and has profound significant across various aspects of decision making, economics system, and societal organization.
1. Land
2. Labor
3. Capital
4. Time
SCARCITY
(10) EVALUATE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SCARCITY
- Foundation of Economic Choices
2.Central Role in Resource Allocation - Determining Prices and Value
- Incentivizing Innovation and Efficiency
- Impact on Social Inequality
- Driving Force of Economic Policy
- Environmental Sustainability
- Role in Global Economics
- Scarcity and Human Behavior
- Moral and Ethical Dimensions
scarcity forces individuals, businesses, and government to make choices about how to allocate their resources efficiently. Every decision involves a trade-off choosing one option means were going another.
- Foundation of Economic Choices
which is the next alternative that must be given up when making a choice.
o Opportunity Cost
economics as a discipline exist likely because of scarcity.
- Central Role in Resource Allocation
3 types of Central Role in Resource Allocation
- Capitalist
- Socialist
- Mixed
come up sa pagbili ng resources based on the price of the product.
Market economy
relies on the central planning to address scarcity.
Command economy
scarcity is a key determinant of the _____ and ____ of goods and services.
Items that are scars relative to demand typically command higher prices.
- Determining Prices and Value
scarcity drives innovation as individuals and businesses seek way to do more business.
o The need to conserve limited resources or make better use of available ones encourages them to use the technological advancement, new production methods, and create creative problem solving.
o Firms constantly drives to improve efficiency to reduce cost.
- Incentivizing Innovation and Efficiency
scarcity often leads to competition for resources.
- Impact on Social Inequality
- the government are constantly grafting with scarcity in the form of budget, forstaint, limited natural resources, and time sensitive goals.
- Driving Force of Economic Policy
is often yearned toward managing the distribution and utilization of scars resources.
o Include policy like taxation, welfare, environmental conservation, healthcare, and national defense.
Public policy
scarcity is like environment especially when it comes to non-renewable resources like fusils, minerals, and fresh waters.
o It highlights the finite nature of natural resources without careful management results deflation due to overcome sanction or environmental degradation and result in law term economic and social challenges such as climate change, laws of biodiversity, and water shortage.
- Environmental Sustainability
interconnected worldwide economic activities that take place between multiple countries.
- Role in Global Economics