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Welfare economics

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Economic Growth Economic Growth Economic growth refers to an increase in the total output of an economy. Defined by some economists as the increase of real GDP per capita. The production possibility curve and the AD/AS graph show the combinations of output that can be produced if all society?s scarce resources are fully and efficiently employed. The more efficiently they are used the more growth an economy experiences. Economic Growth Human Capital Human capital is the economic value that an employee provides to an employer. The greater the human capital, the better the opportunity for economic growth. Labor Productivity Labor Productivity is the real output per hour of work.

The Basic Economics Problem

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The Basic Economics Problem The highlighted sentence are copying from the textbooks Scarcity ? the resources that are limited in supply so that people have to make choice to buy them. Free Goods - the resources that are unlimited in supply, like air and water on the earth. Economics Goods - the resources that are limited in supply and they are scarce. People have infinite needs and wants but there are limited resources on the earth, so that people have to make choice and have the trade-off when buying the resources. E.g. People want a big house or big flat, but there are limited lands (resources). They want so expensive food like shark fins but there are limited shark for hunting.

The Basic Economics Problem

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The Basic Economics Problem The highlighted sentence are copying from the textbooks Scarcity ? the resources that are limited in supply so that people have to make choice to buy them. Free Goods - the resources that are unlimited in supply, like air and water on the earth. Economics Goods - the resources that are limited in supply and they are scarce. People have infinite needs and wants but there are limited resources on the earth, so that people have to make choice and have the trade-off when buying the resources. E.g. People want a big house or big flat, but there are limited lands (resources). They want so expensive food like shark fins but there are limited shark for hunting.

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Chapter 24 Outline Economic Systems and Sustainability A. An economic system produces and distributes goods and services by using natural, human, and physical resources. 1. An economic system produces, distributes and consumes goods and services. 2. Three types of resources are used to produce goods and services, natural resources, human resources (labor and skills), and physical or manufactured resources (tools, machinery, etc) B. A purely free-market system is a theoretical ideal where buyers and sellers interact in markets without interference by government or other interference. 1. In the ideal, all economic decisions are governed by demand and supply and price.

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There is a class war going on in this country. And my class is winning"?Warren Buffet???There is one meta fact about wealth and inequality in this country that trumps all others- this is a very, very, rich country. If there were a UN sponsored Olympics for the worlds riches we would be the silver medal winners in per capita wealth among developed countries, second only to the Swiss who have cornered the gold (literally and figuratively) with their secret banking billions.??Just how rich are we? With just 5% of the world?s population we own just shy of one third of all the wealth in the world- 32.6%. That?s $201,319 for every adult American.

Economics Notes

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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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