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Chapter
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Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System
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Managers Making Choices at BMW
2.1 Use a production possibilities frontier to analyze opportunity costs and trade-offs.
2.2 Understand comparative advantage and explain how it is the basis for trade.
2.3 Explain the basic idea of how a market system works.
Learning Objectives
To compete in the automobile market, the managers of BMW must make many strategic decisions, such as whether to introduce a new car model.
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Trade-offs, Comparative Advantage, and the Market System
Scarcity The situation in which unlimited wants exceed the limited resources available to fulfill those wants.
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Production Possibilities Frontiersand Opportunity Costs
Learning Objective 2.1
Production possibilities frontier (PPF) A curve showing the maximum attainable combinations of two products that may be produced with available resources and current technology.
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Production Possibilities Frontiersand Opportunity Costs
Learning Objective 2.1
Graphing the Production Possibilities Frontier
FIGURE 2-1
BMW’s Production Possibilities Frontier
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Production Possibilities Frontiersand Opportunity Costs
Learning Objective 2.1
Graphing the Production Possibilities Frontier
Opportunity cost The highest-valued alternative that must be given up to engage in an activity.
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Solved Problem 2-1Drawing a Production Possibilities Frontier for Rosie’s Boston Bakery
Learning Objective 2.1
HOURS SPENT MAKING QUANTITY MADE
CHOICE CAKES PIES CAKES PIES
A 5 0 5 0
B 4 1 4 2
C 3 2 3 4
D 2 3 2 6
E 1 4 1 8
F 0 5 0 10
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Trade-offs: Hurricane Katrina, Tsunami Relief, and Charitable Giving
More funds for Katrina relief meant less funds for other charities.
Makingthe
Connection
Learning Objective 2.1
More than two-thirds of Americans donated money to hurricane relief. Although these funds helped to reduce the suffering of many hurricane victims, donations to some other causes actually declined.
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Production Possibilities Frontiersand Opportunity Costs
Learning Objective 2.1
Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs
FIGURE 2-2
Increasing Marginal Opportunity Cost
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Production Possibilities Frontiersand Opportunity Costs
Learning Objective 2.1
Economic Growth
FIGURE 2-3
Economic Growth
Economic growth The ability of the economy to produce increasing quantities of goods and services.
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Comparative Advantage and Trade
Learning Objective 2.2
Trade The act of buying or selling.
Specialization and Gains from Trade
FIGURE 2-4
Production Possibilities for You and Your Neighbor, without Trade
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Learning Objective 2.2
Specialization and Gains from Trade
FIGURE 2-5
Gains from Trade
Comparative Advantage and Trade
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Learning Objective 2.2
Specialization and Gains from Trade
TABLE 2-1
A Summary of the Gains from Trade
Comparative Advantage and Trade
YOU YOUR NEIGHBOR
APPLES(IN POUNDS)
CHERRIES(IN POUNDS)
APPLES(IN POUNDS)
CHERRIES(IN POUNDS)
Production and consumption without trade 8 12 9 42
Production with trade 20 0 0 60
Consumption with trade 10 15 10 45
Gains from trade (increased consumption) 2 3 1 3
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Learning Objective 2.2
Absolute advantage The ability of an individual, a firm, or a country to produce more of a good or service than competitors, using the same amount of resources
Absolute Advantage versus Comparative Advantage
Table 2-2
Opportunity Costs of Picking Apples and Cherries
Comparative Advantage and Trade
OPPORTUNITY COST OF PICKING1 POUND OF APPLES
OPPORTUNITY COST OF PICKING1 POUND OF CHERRIES
YOU 1 pound of cherries 1 pound of apples
YOUR NEIGHBOR 2 pounds of cherries 0.5 pounds of apples
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Learning Objective 2.2
Comparative advantage The ability of an individual, a firm, or a country to produce a good or service at a lower opportunity cost than competitors.
Absolute Advantage versus Comparative Advantage
Comparative Advantage and Trade
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Learning Objective 2.2
The basis for trade is comparative advantage, not absolute advantage.
Individuals, firms, and countries are better off if they specialize in producing goods and services for which they have a comparative advantage and obtain the other goods and services they need by trading.
Comparative Advantage and the Gains from Trade
Don’t Let This Happen to YOU!Don’t Confuse Absolute Advantage and Comparative Advantage
Comparative Advantage and Trade
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Learning Objective 2.2
Solved Problem 2-2Comparative Advantage and theGains from Trade
BEFORE TRADE AFTER TRADE
HONEY(IN TONS)
MAPLE SYRUP(IN TONS)
HONEY(IN TONS)
MAPLE SYRUP (IN TONS)
CANADA 30 15 30 20UNITED STATES 10 40 20 40
CANADA UNITED STATES
HONEY(IN TONS)
MAPLE SYRUP(IN TONS)
HONEY(IN TONS)
MAPLE SYRUP (IN TONS)
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Learning Objective 2.2
Solved Problem 2-2Comparative Advantage and theGains from Trade
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The Market System
Learning Objective 2.3
Market A group of buyers and sellers of a good or service and the institution or arrangement by which they come together to trade.
Product markets Markets for goods—such as computers—and services—such as medical treatment.
Factor markets Markets for the factors of production, such as labor, capital, natural resources, and entrepreneurial ability.
Factors of production The inputs used to make goods and services.
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The Market System
Learning Objective 2.3
• Labor includes all types of work, from the part-time labor of teenagers working at McDonald’s to the work of top managers in large corporations.
• Capital refers to physical capital, such as computers and machine tools, that is used to produce other goods.
• Natural resources include land, water, oil, iron ore, and other raw materials (or “gifts of nature”) that are used in producing goods.
• An entrepreneur is someone who operates a business. Entrepreneurial ability is the ability to bring together the other factors of production to successfully produce and sell goods and services.
Factors of production are divided into four broad categories:
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Learning Objective 2.3
Circular-flow diagram A model that illustrates how participants in markets are linked.
The Market System
The Circular Flow of Income
• A household consists of all the individuals in a home.
• Firms are suppliers of goods and services.
Two key groups participate in markets:
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Learning Objective 2.3
FIGURE 2-6
The Circular-Flow Diagram
The Market System
The Circular Flow of Income
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The Market System
Learning Objective 2.3
Free market A market with few government restrictions on how a good or service can be produced or sold or on how a factor of production can be employed.
The Gains from Free Markets
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The Market System
Learning Objective 2.3
The Market Mechanism
Individuals usually act in a rational, self-interested way. Adam Smith understood that people’s motives can be complex.
In a famous phrase, Smith said that firms would be led by the “invisible hand” of the market to provide consumers with what they wanted.
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Learning Objective 2.3
Makingthe
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A Story of the Market Systemin Action: How Do You Make an iPod?
The market coordinates the activities of the many people spread around the world who contribute to the making of an iPod.
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Learning Objective 2.3
Entrepreneur Someone who operates a business, bringing together the factors of production—labor, capital, and natural resources—to produce goods and services.
The Role of the Entrepreneur
The Market System
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Learning Objective 2.3
Property rights The rights individuals or firms have to the exclusive use of their property, including the right to buy or sell it.
The Legal Basis of a Successful Market System
The Market System
Protection of Private Property
Enforcement of Contracts and Property Rights
If property rights are not well enforced, fewer goods and services will be produced. This reduces economic efficiency, leaving the economy inside its production possibilities frontier.
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Learning Objective 2.3
Makingthe
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Property Rights in Cyberspace:YouTube and MySpace
Controlling unauthorized copying is more difficult today than it was when “copying” meant making a physical copy of a book, CD, or DVD. The popularity of YouTube and MySpace highlights the problem of unauthorized copying of videos and music.
Some recording artists worry that the copyrights for their songs are not being protected on the Internet.
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An Inside LOOK BMW Managers Change Production Strategy
Redesigned X5 to lead increase; new coupe to debut in 2008
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K e y T e r m s
Absolute advantage
Circular-flow diagram
Comparative advantage
Economic growth
Entrepreneur
Factor markets
Factors of production
Free market
Market
Opportunity cost
Product markets
Production possibilities frontier (PPF)
Property rights
Scarcity
Trade