ECON 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Marginal Cost, Marginal Utility, Canadian Tire

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Definition of scarcity: the limited nature of society"s resources. Resources: natural, labour and capital (including human capital but not. Definition of economics: the study of how society manages its scarce resources. financial) Define scarcity and give one example from your own experience. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Examples include how a student spends her time, how a family decides to spend its income, how the canadian government spends tax dollars, how regulations may protect the environment at a cost to firm owners. A special example of a tradeoff is the tradeoff between efficiency and equity. Definition of efficiency: the property of society getting the most it can from its scarce resources. Definition of equity: the property of distributing economic prosperity fairly among the members of society. Principle #2: the cost of something is what you give up to get it. Making decisions requires individuals to consider the benefits and costs of some action.

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Chapter 12: production, and growth.

5. Which of the following is human capital?

A. a student loan

B. understanding how to use a company's accounting software

C. training videos for new corporate employees

D. All of the above are correct.

6. One of the Ten Principles of Economics in Chapter 1 is that people face tradeoffs. The growth that arises from capital accumulation is not a free lunch. It requires that society

A. conserve resources for future generations.

B. sacrifice consumption of goods and services now in order to enjoy more consumption in the future.

C. recycle resources so that future generations can produce goods and services with the accumulated capital.

D. None of the above is correct.

7. Other things the same, a country that increases its savings rate will have

A. higher future capital and higher future real GDP per person.

B. higher future capital but not higher future real GDP per person.

C. higher future real GDP per person but not higher future capital.

D. neither higher future capital nor higher future real GDP per person.

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Microeconomics Multiple choice questions. Please answer all the questions.

1. Scarcity:
A. exists because resources are limited while human wants are unlimited.
B. means we are unable to have as much as we would like to have.
C. will likely be eliminated as technology continues to expand.
D. is not an issue addressed in economics.

2. People are forced to make choices because of:
A. unlimited wants and unlimited resources.
B. limited wants and unlimited resources.
C. unlimited wants and limited resources.
D. limited wants and limited resources.
E. irrational wants and limited resources.

3. Which of the following is closest to the definition of capital?
A. c and e.
B. c and d.
C. Tools, equipment, means of transportation
D. Factories and machinery.
E. Borrowed money.

4. Which one of the following is the most accurate definition of economics?
A. Economics is the study of stocks and bonds.
B. Economics is the study of how people allocate unlimited resources.
C. Economics is the study of how consumers choose to spend their income.
D. Economics is the study of how society chooses to allocate scarce resources.

5. The basic difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics is:
A. microeconomics concentrates on individual markets while macroeconomics focuses primarily on international trade.
B. microeconomics concentrates on the behavior of individual consumers while macroeconomics focuses on the behavior of firms.
C. microeconomics concentrates on the behavior of individual consumers and firms while macroeconomics focuses on the performance of the entire economy.
D. microeconomics explores the causes of inflation while macroeconomics focuses on the causes of unemployment.

6. Which of the following is not a resource?
A. Land.
B. Labor.
C. Money.
D. Capital.

7. Which of the following would an economist classify as capital?
A. 100 shares of Microsoft stock.
B. $50 bill.
C. credit card.
D. lawyer's personal computer.

8. Economics, according to its definition, studies how people:
A. earn and spend money.
B. invest in the stock and bond markets.
C. make choices in the face of scarcity.
D. supply goods in response to demand.

9. Which of the following is the best example of a microeconomic topic?
A. The impact that the money supply has on inflation.
B. The reasons for increases in the price of soft drinks.
C. The effect that federal budget deficits have on the interest rate.
D. The tradeoff between inflation and unemployment.

10. Which of the following is a macroeconomics topic?
A. Wages of textile workers in the Northeast.
B. The cost of producing 10,000 bookcases.
C. The economy's annual growth rate.
D. National demand for fish.
E. Effects of farm subsidies on food prices.

11. An economic theory claims that a rise in gasoline prices will cause gasoline purchases to fall, Ceteris paribus. The phrase "Ceteris paribus" means that:
A. other relevant factors like consumer incomes must be held constant.
B. the gasoline prices must first be adjusted for inflation.
C. the theory is widely accepted but cannot be accurately tested.
D. consumers' need for gasoline remains the same regardless of the price.

12. An economic model is:
A. a plastic scaled version of the economy.
B. a complete depiction of reality.
C. an abstraction from reality.
D. applicable to consumer behavior but not to producer behavior.
E. not an accepted tool of the economics profession.

13. Which of the following sayings best reflects the concept of opportunity cost?
A. "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."
B. "There is no such thing as a free lunch."
C. "I have a baker's dozen."
D. "There's no business like show business."

14. The opportunity cost of watching television is:
A. all of the alternative programs that appear on other stations.
B. zero because there is no money expenditure involved.
C. the alternative use of the time foregone by watching the program.
D. zero if it benefits you.

15. Which of the following does not illustrate opportunity cost?
A. If I study, I must give up going to the football game.
B. If I buy a computer, I must do without a 35" television.
C. More consumer spending now means more spending in the future.
D. If I spend more on clothes, I must spend less on food.

16. When deciding whether to buy a second car, marginal analysis indicates that the purchaser should compare the:
A. benefits expected from two cars with the cost of both.
B. additional benefits expected from a second car with the cost of the two cars.
C. dollar cost of the two cars with the potential income that the cars will generate.
D. additional benefits of the second car with the additional cost of the second car.

17. According to marginal analysis, you should spend more time studying economics if the extra benefit from an additional hour of study:
A. is positive.
B. outweighs the extra cost.
C. exceeds the benefits of the previous hour of study.
D. will raise your exam score.

1. Three fundamental economic questions

A manager asks an employee, "Should we use our research budget to improve the quality of the products we already make, or to develop new products?"

The manager's question is best classified as which one of the following fundamental economic questions?

a)For whom to produce

b)What to produce

c)How to produce

2. Scarcity, opportunity cost, and marginal analysis

Crystal is training for a triathlon, a timed race that combines swimming, biking, and running.

Consider the following sentence: Because her pool sessions are helping her swim more quickly, Crystal plans to reduce by 1 hour per week the time she spends training on the bike and increase by 1 hour the time she spends in the swimming pool; however, her husband says that she should stop doing any biking and running and spend all 20 hours per week in the pool.

Which basic principle of individual choice does Crystal's plan illustrate that her husband's advice does not?

a)People usually exploit opportunities to make themselves better off.

b)Many decisions are made on the margin.

c)Resources are scarce.

d)All costs are opportunity costs.

Juanita is a hard-working college freshman. One Tuesday, she decides to work nonstop until she has answered 250 practice problems for her physics course. She starts work at 8:00 AM and uses a table to keep track of her progress throughout the day. She notices that as she gets tired, it takes her longer to solve each problem.

Time	Total Problems Answered
8:00 AM	0
9:00 AM	100
10:00 AM	175
11:00 AM	225
Noon	250

Use the table to answer the following questions.

1) The marginal, or additional, gain from Juanitaâs second hour of work, from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM, is---------problems.

2) The marginal gain from Juanitaâs fourth hour of work, from 11:00 AM to noon, is------------problems.

Later, the teaching assistant in Juanitaâs physics course gives her some advice. âBased on past experience,â the teaching assistant says, âworking on 62.5 problems raises a studentâs exam score by about the same amount as reading the textbook for 1 hour.â For simplicity, assume students always cover the same number of pages during each hour they spend reading.

Given this information, in order to use her 4 hours of study time to get the best exam score possible, how many hours should she have spent working on problems and how many should she have spent reading?

a) 0 hours working on problems, 4 hours reading

b) 1 hour working on problems, 3 hours reading

c) 2 hours working on problems, 2 hours reading

d) 4 hours working on problems, 0 hours reading

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