Crowding Out - is what happens when a mega sports event attracts fanatics but drive agnostics away Substitution - when consumers shift their spending, instead of increasing their overall consumption Leakage - the tendency for money to circulate out of rather than through a local economy Economics - Social science concerned with the efficient use of limited resources to achieve maximum satisfaction of economic wants (study of how individuals and societies deal with scarcity) What is economics? -science of scarcity (the condition in which our wants are greater than our limited resources) -since we are unable to have everything we desire, we must make choices on how we use our resources -in economics we will study the choices of individuals, firms and governments
Economics Notes
Crowding Out - is what happens when a mega sports event attracts fanatics but drive agnostics away Substitution - when consumers shift their spending, instead of increasing their overall consumption Leakage - the tendency for money to circulate out of rather than through a local economy Economics - Social science concerned with the efficient use of limited resources to achieve maximum satisfaction of economic wants (study of how individuals and societies deal with scarcity) What is economics? -science of scarcity (the condition in which our wants are greater than our limited resources) -since we are unable to have everything we desire, we must make choices on how we use our resources -in economics we will study the choices of individuals, firms and governments
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