lecture 5 measuring the cost of living
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Macroeconomics
Lecture 5
Measuring the Cost of Living
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Questions?
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Quiz 2 Name:______________________
1. Who is considered the Father of Economics?
2. The price system is really a ______________ system.
3. In every exchange there are ______ values and ______ price.
4. If your opportunity cost is higher than mine, who has the comparative advantage, you or me?
5. All trade is based on ___________ advantage.
6. What was the major reason the price of oil has dropped by over 50 percent the last two years?
7. Would you rather live in Hawaii or Idaho and why?
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1. What are the four questions all countries must ask and answer?
2. How you ____ the pie, determines the ______ of the pie. What does this mean?
3. Who is considered the Father of Economics?
4. What year was the "Wealth of Nations" published?
5. What is the "Invisible Hand" in economics?
6. The price system is really a ______________ system.
7. In every exchange there are ______ values and ______ price.
8. Define opportunity cost.
9. Define Absolute Advantage.
10. Define Comparative Advantage.
11. Your opportunity cost is higher than mine, who has the comparative advantage, you or me?
12. All trade is based on ___________ advantage.
13. If you are better than me at doing everything, should you still trade with me? Why?
14. In the circular flow diagram, what are the two entities?
15. In the circular flow diagram, what are the two markets?
16. Where do households buy things?
17. Where do households sell things?
18. Nobel laureate economist and author of Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen said, “Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency." Which one of the six capitals is he talking about?
19. Does Karl Marx argue for an individual market economy or a government planned economy?
Take a look at the State GDP Chart and then answer the following questions: (Ignore the District of Columbia)
20. What state has the highest GDP?
21. What state has the highest GDP per capita?
22. States have different costs of living (housing, foot, ect.) After adjusting for the Cost of Living, which state has the highest cost of living adjusted GDP per capita?
23. Look at Hawaii and Idaho. Where would you rather live and why?
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How you slice the pie
determines the size of
the pie
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Absolute Advantage
Produce more with the same resources
Comparative Advantage
Produce at a lower opportunity cost
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Comparative Advantage
My opportunity costis lower than your opportunity cost
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GDP, Population, GDP Per Capita
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Sorted by GDP
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Sorted by Population
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Sorted by GDP per Capita
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India Germany Japan
U.K.
France
Brazil Mexico
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Intellectual
Financial Physical
Human
Culture
Entrepreneur
trust knowledge skills personality health relationships
natural resources time buildings equipmentthings than make things
money and risksavers and borrowers time is money
(1+r)n
insurance limited liability corporations
ideas technologymethods
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Trust Knowledge and Skills Health and Nutrition Social Relationships
Human Capital
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Health & Nutrition
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Two types Tools
Natural Resources Water, Oil, Minerals
Physical Capital
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Tools we use to make stuff
Natural Resources Renewable
Non-renewable
Physical Capital
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Technology How the world works
How we make smart things and make
things smart
Intellectual Capital
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Research and Development
Patent System
20 Year Monopoly on your idea
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Human CapitalIntellectual Capital
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Money
Allows us to store labor and shift time
Financial Capital
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Savingsversus
Consumption
Spend or Save?
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Save instead of consumeInvestment in new capital
Increase productivity
Three Steps
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Capital Allocation
Right capital at the right time
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Innovation - Productivity
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Continuous Innovation
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IdeasIncentivesInvestmentInventionsInnovations
Process
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Atoms
Bits
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AtomsHardwarePhysical
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glass metalplasticsilicon
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atoms have
always existed
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Make me an iPhone.
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How do we get wealthy if the
number of atoms is constant?
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BitsBinary Digit
Bi - tKnowledge can be
reduced to bits
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Words, Images, Soundsdigitized
converted to bitscomputer language
store, transmit, process
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Bitssoftware
intelligenceknowledge
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Bitsintelligize
atoms
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Make me an iPhone.
Sorry, I don’t have the bits
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Not limitedUnlimitedInfinite
LimitedNot UnlimitedFinite
Atoms Bits
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Intelligence
ThinkingReasoningInspiring
Ideas
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Creating
Organizing, Arranging, Imagining, Designing, Engineering, Building,
Developing, Shaping, FormingDevising, Fabricating
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Creating
Acting with an intelligent purpose
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Creativity adds value
Creativity is an act of intelligence
Intelligence is infinite
Therefore, value creation is infinite
Infinite Creativity
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Barbed Wire Joseph Glidden 1874
1874: 20¢ per pound 1897: 2¢ per pound 90 percent drop in 23 years
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Lawful Fence Wood fencing Crops vs. livestock Own land, but could not protect crops
Don’t need timber Improve land Higher-valued crops Increase in land value by 50% in 10 years Entrepreneurs resolve conflicts Source: Daniel K. Benjamin, PERCReports.org
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Measuring the Cost of Living
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Key Termsconsumer price index
inflation rate
producer price index
indexation
nominal interest rate
real interest rate
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GDP per Capita = GDP ÷ Population
GDP = GDP per Capita x Population
Population = GDP ÷ GDP per Capita
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Inflation
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InflationCause:
Printing money faster than making goods
Effect: Rising prices
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When you have lines waiting to buy your product, you can do two things:
make more, or raise prices
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Nominal vs.
Real
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Nominal Current prices
Current quantity
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Real will always have
a base year
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Time Price
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1930
5 cents
10 cents per hour
30 minutes
2016
$1 dollar
$8 per hour
7.5 minutes
75 Percent Cheaper
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Real Constant prices Current quantity
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GDP DeflatorNominal GDP
Real GDP= x 100
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Pizza Soda
Year Price Qty Total Price Qty Total TotalTotal
%Change
2010 25 100 2500 5 50 250 2750
2011 35 134 4690 6 40 240 4930 79.3%
2011* 25 134 3350 5 40 200 3550 29.1%
2012 45 150 6750 7 30 210 6960 41.2%
2012* 25 150 3750 5 30 150 3900 9.9%
* Prices adjusted to 2010 Rates
Real versus Nominal GDP
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GDP Inflation Rate
GDP Delflator Year 2 - GDP Delflator Year 1
GDP Delflator Year 1= x 100
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InflationCause:
Printing money faster than making goods
Effect: Rising prices
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CPI Consumer Price Index
The market value of a typical basket of goods.
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CPIPrice of goods and services this year
Price of basket in base year= x 100
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CPI Inflation Rate
CPI Year 2 - CPI Year 1
CPI Year 1= x 100
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Converting to Today
Price level today
Price level in prior year
Amount in prior
yearX
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2015
2016
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Real = Nominal + Inflation
Nominal = Inflation + Real
Inflation = Nominal - Real
Interest Rates