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Chapter 2 Economic Tools and Economic Systems
These slides supplement the textbook, but should not replace reading the textbook
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What is opportunity cost?
The value of the best alternative forgone when an item or activity is chosen
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How is opportunity cost estimated?
Opportunity cost is subjectively estimated by the individual decision maker
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What is the opportunity cost of a city to use local taxes to pay for a park?
The best alternative foregone by not building the park
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What is your opportunity cost of attending college?
If make $300 a week, but you expect you could make $500 without school - your opportunity cost is $200
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What is the opportunity cost of
cleaning your room?It’s greater on sunny days than on rainy days
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Why is opportunity cost subjective?
calculation requires time and information
time is the ultimate restraint may vary with circumstances
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What is a sunk cost?A cost that is irrelevant when an economic choice is being made
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What is an example of a sunk cost?
The $6.75 you pay to watch a boring movie is irrelevant to whether or not you watch it to the end
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What isabsolute advantage?The ability to produce something with fewer resources than other producers use
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You can paint a room in 2 hrs, a high school
student in 3 hrs, who has absolute advantage?
You do because you can do it faster
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What iscomparative advantage?
The ability to produce something at a lower opportunity cost than other producers face
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You can make $50 an hr, the high school student makes minimum wage,
who should paint?The high school student because of a lower opportunity cost
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What is barter?
The direct exchange of one good for another without using money
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What is adivision of labor?
The production of a single good into separate tasks in which people specialize
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What is aspecialization of labor?
Focusing an individual’s efforts on a particular product or a single task
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How does the specialization of labor increase productivity?
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Takes advantage of individual natural abilities
Allows workers to develop more experience at a particular task
Permits the introduction of labor-saving machinery
Reduces time required to shift between tasks
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What is the production possibilities frontier?
A curve showing all combinations of goods that can be produced when resources are used most efficiently
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What is efficiency?The condition that exists when there is no way resources can be reallocated to increase the production of one good without decreasing the production of another
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What assumptions do we make with the
production possibilities model?
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Output is limited to two classes of products
Focus is on production during a given time period
Available supplies of resources are fixed
Technology is constant
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What is the law of increasing opportunity?
As more of a good is produced, larger quantities of another good must be sacrificed if resources are already used efficiently
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What shifts the production
possibilities frontier?Changes in resourcesIncrease in the capital stock
Technological change
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Shifts in the Economy’s PPFPanel A: Increase in available resources
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Shifts in the Economy’s PPFPanel B: Decrease in available resources
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Shifts in the Economy’s PPFPanel C: Increase in resources or
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Shifts in the Economy’s PPFPanel D: Increase in resources or
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What is true along the production
possibilities curve? resources are used fully maximized division of labor most efficient combination
of resources
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What choices are made along the production possibilities curve?
To have more of one product units of the other have to be given up
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Production Possibilities Curve analysis includes? opportunity cost scarcity maximum choices efficiency increasing opportunity costs economic growth
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What is an economic system?
A set of social institutions and mechanisms organized to answer the three economic questions
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What are the three questions?
Who gets what and how much?
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What ispure capitalism?
An economic system characterized by private ownership of resources and the use of prices to coordinate economic activity in unregulated markets
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What is acommand economy?
An economic system characterized by public ownership of resources and centralized economic planning
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What is amixed capitalist economy?An economic system
characterized by private ownership of some resources and public ownership of others; some markets are regulated, others are not
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What kind of economic system do we have?
A mixed capitalist economy
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