The study of how people and countries make decisions about how to use their scarce resources in the most efficient way.
What is Economics?
Work that people do is this resource.
What is labor?
Where goods and services are bought and sold.
What are product markets?
This would cause the PPF to move to the left.
What is labor shortage, laziness, a worker strike, transportation problems or anything else Allen can think of?
Adam Smith believed this would guide resources to their most productive uses. What is good for one, is good for all.
What is the invisible hand?
Water is less expensive than a diamond. Odd, because a diamond cannot keep you alive..
What is the paradox of value?
What it means when the PPF moves to the right?
What is growth?
Scarcity + Utiltiy = this?
What is value?
This is where the factors of production are bought and sold (labor/salaries, land for rent, borrow money)
What is a factor market?
A simplified version of a complex concept or behavior expressed in the form of an equation, graph, or illustration.
What is an economic model?
A way of thinking about a choice that compares the cost of an action to its benefits.
What is cost-benefit analysis?