SCARCITY AND CHOICE Flashcards
limited availability such as time, money and natural resources to meet unlimited wants and needs
scarcity
involved socities and individuals to make decisions to allocate scarce resources for satisfaction
choice
what are needs and wants
needs- needed for survival
want- things that are good but unimportant
physiological theory by Maslow that is motivated by a five tier model of human needs
hierarchy of needs
arrange the 5 level of needs
- physiological needs
- safety needs
- love and belonging
4.esteem - self actualization
arrange the expanded hierarchy of needs
- physiological needs
- safety needs
- love and belonging
- esteem
- cognitive needs
- aesthetic needs
- self actualization
- transcendence needs
what is esteem needs?
2 categories
- esteem for oneself
-(dignity, achievement, mastery)
-desire for repo and respect
(statues, respect)
what is cognitive needs
knowledge and understanding
what is self actualization
realizing personal potential, self fulfillment
hat is transcendence
motivated by values that transcend beyond personal self ( religion, sexual experience science etc.
what are the two types of opportunity costs?
- opportunity costs and individuals
- opportunity cost and society
the cost we must use in making decisions made by other peopele
- the value of the next best alternative
-trade off( act of giving out he benefits
OPPORTUNUTY COST
represent the maximum production of two goods in an economy
-illustrate trade-off and opportunity cost
PPF production possibilities frontier
when all of society’s resources are allocated and exhausted society is
points ( A-E)
PARETO EFFICIENCY