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Chapter 1:Economics and Economic Reasoning
Prepared by:Kevin Richter, Douglas CollegeCharlene Richter, British Columbia Institute of Technology
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What Economics Is
Economics is the study of how individuals, firms, and governments make optimal choices from among a set of alternatives when facing scarce resources.
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What Economics Is
Key words:
choice alternative scarcity
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What Economics Is
Scarcity exists because individuals want more than available resources can produce.
Wants are unlimited, but resources are limited.
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What Economics Is
The degree of scarcity is constantly changing.
The quantity of goods, services, and usable resources depends on technology and human action.
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What Economics Is
Any economic system must solve three central coordination problems:
What, and how much, to produce. How to produce it. For whom to produce it.
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What Economics Is
In this course you will learn:
Economic reasoning. Economic terminology. Economic insights economists have about issues,
and theories that lead to those insights.
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What Economics Is
To understand the economy, you need to learn:
Information about economic institutions.
Information about the economic policy options facing society today.
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A Guide to Economic Reasoning Economic reasoning is making decisions by
comparing costs and benefits.
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Marginal Costs and Marginal Benefits The relevant costs and benefits are the
expected incremental, or additional, costs incurred and the expected incremental benefits of a decision.
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Marginal Costs and Marginal Benefits Economist use the term marginal when
referring to additional or incremental.
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Marginal Costs and Marginal Benefits Marginal cost – the additional cost to you
over and above the costs you have already incurred.
This means not counting sunk costs – costs that have already been incurred and cannot be recovered.
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Marginal Costs and Marginal Benefits Marginal benefit – the additional benefit
above and beyond what you’ve already accrued.
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Marginal Costs and Marginal Benefits According to the economics decision rule:
If the relevant benefits of doing something exceed the relevant costs, do it.
If the relevant costs of doing something exceed the relevant benefits, don’t do it.
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Economics and Passion
Economic reasoning is based on the premise that everything has a cost.
It leads to a better society for the majority of people.
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Opportunity Cost
The Opportunity cost of the chosen activity is the value of the next-best alternative to the activity you have chosen.
Opportunity cost is the basis of cost/benefit economic reasoning.
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Opportunity Cost
In economic reasoning, opportunity cost must be less than the benefit of what you have chosen.
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Economic and Market Forces
The opportunity cost concept applies to all aspects of life.
It is fundamental to understanding how society reacts to scarcity.
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Economic and Market Forces
When goods are scarce, they must be rationed.
Rationing is the mechanism for determining who gets what.
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Economic and Market Forces
Economic reality is controlled by three forces:
Economic forces (the invisible hand).
Social and cultural forces.
Political and legal forces.
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Economic and Market Forces
Economic forces are the necessary reactions to scarcity.
A market force is an economic force that is given relatively free rein by society to work through the market.
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Economic and Market Forces
Market forces ration quantity by changing prices.
When there is a shortage, the price goes up.
When there is a surplus, the price goes down.
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Economic and Market Forces
The invisible hand is the price mechanism -- the rise and fall of prices -- that guides our actions in a market.
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Economic and Market Forces
Political and social forces often work together against the invisible hand.
What happens in society can be seen as a reaction to, and interaction of, the invisible hand, political and legal forces, and social and cultural forces.
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Theories, Models and Assumptions General insights into how economies work
are often based on generalizations called economic theories.
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Theories, Models and Assumptions Economic theories are abstract.
A theory is often embodied in an economic model or an economic principle.
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Theories, Models and Assumptions Economic model – a set of simple
behavioural assumptions to explain decision making.
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Theories, Models and Assumptions Economic principle – a commonly held
insight stated as a law or general assumption.
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Theories, Models and Assumptions Economists cannot test their models with
controlled experiments.
It is impossible to hold “other things constant,” as is done in laboratory experiments.
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Theories, Models and Assumptions Theories, models, and principles must be
combined with a knowledge of real-world economic institutions to arrive at a specific policy recommendation.
In order to understand the theory you must understand the assumptions underlying the theory.
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The Invisible Hand Theory
Economist have observed:
Price tends to fall when the quantity supplied is greater than the quantity demanded.
Price tends rise when the quantity demanded is greater than the quantity supplied.
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The Invisible Hand Theory
According to the invisible hand theory, a market economy, through the price mechanism, will allocate resources efficiently.
Efficiency means achieving a goal as cheaply as possible.
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Economic Theory and Stories
Economic theory and its models are a shorthand means of telling a story.
If you can’t translate a theory into a story, you don’t understand the theory.
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Microeconomics and Macroeconomics Economics is divided into two parts:
microeconomics and macroeconomics.
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Microeconomics
Microeconomics is the study of individual decision making.
It considers household and business decisions, market allocations and pricing policies.
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Macroeconomics
Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole.
It considers the problems of inflation, unemployment, business cycles, and economic growth.
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Economic Institutions
In applying economic theory to reality, you must know about economic institutions.
Economic institutions are the laws, common practices, and social, political, and religious organization, of a society.
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Economic Institutions
Economic institutions differ significantly among nations.
They sometimes seem to operate in ways quite different than economic theory predicts.
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Economic Policy Options
Economic policies are actions taken by government to influence economic events.
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Economic Policy Options
To carry out economic policy effectively, one must understand how the economic policy might change institutions.
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Objective Policy Analysis
Objective policy analysis keeps the value judgments separate from the analysis.
Subjective policy analysis is that which reflects the analyst’s view of how things should be.
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Objective Policy Analysis
To make clear the distinction between objective and subjective analysis, economics is divided into three categories:
Positive economics Normative economics Science of economics
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Objective Policy Analysis
Positive economics – the study of what is, and how the economy works.
Normative economics – the study of what the goals of the economy should be.
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Objective Policy Analysis
Science of economics – the application of the knowledge learned in positive economics to achieve the goals determined in normative economics.
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Objective Policy Analysis
It is hard to maintain objectivity in the science of economics.
It embodies the problems of both positive and normative economics
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Policy and Social and Political Forces The choice of policy options depends on
more than economic theory.
Political and social forces must be taken into account when applying economic theory to policy.
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Economics and Economic Reasoning
End of Chapter 1
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The Language of Graphs
Chapter 1 Appendix
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Slopes of Curves
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Inverse and Direct Relationships
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Inverse relationship: When X goes up, Y goes downWhen X goes down, Y goes up
Direct relationship: When X goes up, Y goes up
When X goes down, Y goes down
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Maximum Point
MaximumSlope = 0
A
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Maximum and Minimum Points
Slope = 0Minimum
B
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Presenting Information Visually
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Inco
me
(in
doll
ars)
$14,000
13,000
12,000
11,000
10,000
1992 1994 1996
(a) Income over time (1)
The Importance of Scales
Inco
me
(in
doll
ars) $18,000
16,000
14,000
12,000
10,000
1992 1994 1996
(b) Income over time (2)
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The Language of Graphs
End of Chapter 1 Appendix