ECON 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Opportunity Cost
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E(cid:272)o(cid:374)o(cid:373)y, (cid:862)oiko(cid:374)o(cid:373)os(cid:863) (cid:894)greek(cid:895: on who manages a household, households and economies have much in common. Households face many decisions: allocate scare resources. Scarcity: the li(cid:373)ited (cid:374)ature of so(cid:272)iety"s resour(cid:272)es, society has limited resources and therefor cannot provide all the goods and services people wish to have. Economics: how society manages its scarce resources, how people make decisions. Economists study: how people make decisions. Work, buy, save, invest: how people interact with one another, analyze forces and trends that affect the economy as a whole. Fraction of the population that cannot find work. (cid:862)there ai(cid:374)"t (cid:374)o su(cid:272)h thi(cid:374)g as a free lu(cid:374)(cid:272)h(cid:863) To get something that we like, we usually have to give up something else that we also like. National defense vs. consumer goods (guns vs. butter) Clean environment vs. high level of income. Society getting the maximum benefits from its scare resources. Distributing economic prosperity uniformly among the members of society.
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