EC120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sunk Costs, Opportunity Cost, Snob
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Scarcity the study of the use of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited human wants. This includes resources with alternative uses (ex: food, time) implies that choices must be made and making choices implies the existence of costs. Opportunity cost: the value of the next best alternative that is forgone when one alternative is chosen, that is the cost measured in terms of other goods, and services that could have been obtained instead. Example: resources that could have produced 20km of road are best used to produce one hospital the opportunity cost of a hospital is 20km road or the opportunity cost of 20km road is one hospital. Production possibilities boundary: a curve showing which alternative combinations of output can be attained if all available resources are used efficiently (fully employed); it is the boundary between attainable and unattainable output combinations. Resource allocation: the allocation of an economy"s scarce resources among alternative uses.