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ECONOMIC PROBLEMS& GOALS,
CONCEPT OF SCARCITY & CHOICE
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MICRO ECONOMICS
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� NEED
� WANT DESIRE
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WANT DESIREMONEY
POWERDEMAND
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Scarcity
� “Limited quantities of resources to meet unlimited
wants.”
� Your wants are pretty much unlimited.
� All resources, goods, and services are limited,� All resources, goods, and services are limited,
however.
� This means it’s impossible for all the wants to be
met.
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Opportunity cost
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� Scarcity and choice
� Scarcity and choice and opportunity cost
� Scarcity and choice for firm
� Scarcity and choice for society� Scarcity and choice for society
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Economic problems
� Economics, then, tries to solve the problem of
scarcity.
� How to determine and what to produce
� Socialism - society� Socialism - society
� Communism – centrally
� Capitalist- laissez faire
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� Land, Labor, Capital and enterprise� Land, Labor, Capital and enterprise
� These have specific meanings in economics.
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Land
� All natural resources used to produce goods and
services.
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Labor
� Work people get paid for.
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Capital
� Human-made resources used to produce stuff or
provide services.
� This includes things like buildings, factories,
equipment, computers, paper, copy machines, etc.equipment, computers, paper, copy machines, etc.
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Enterprise
� Makes sure all the 3 factors of production are co-
operating and organsied
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Economic goals
� Full employment of factors of production
� Price stability
� Inflation
� Economic growth� Economic growth
� Free trade with nations
� “correct ” distribution of income
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Efficiency- production efficiency
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� Specialization
� Three coordination tasks
with markets and prices
� How to produce� How to produce
� What to produce
� For whom to produce
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