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Econ Ch 2
Question | Answer |
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What questions apply to all economic systems? | What goods should be produced? How should those goods be produced? Who should get the goods? |
Production Decision | What goods should be produced? |
Resource Use Decision | How should those goods be produced? |
Distribution Decision | Who should get the goods? |
What are the fundamental parts? | Goods/services as the output of production process, factors of production, households vs firms |
Goods and Services | Any physical effort/object that betters human well-being |
Factors of Production | Land, labor, capital |
What is land? | Natural resources |
What is labor? | Human effort towards work |
What is capital? | Tools, machines, man-made structures to produce goods/services |
What is skilled labor? | Human resources |
What is unskilled labor? | Human capital |
Specialization and Division of Labor | Produces more goods (assembly line) |
Households | Own resources, provide to firms, consume firms' output |
Firms | Produce goods/services and consume household resources |
Tradeoffs/Opportunity Cost | Cost of the high value option lost when another is chosen (to produce one thing, we lose another) [loss is opp cost] |
Production Possibilites Factor | Max output of any two goods |
What point would be outside the PPC? | Unattainable |
What point would be inside the PPC? | Inefficient |
What point would be on the curve? | Efficient |
Why is the PPC line curved? | Due to the law of increasing cost (opp cost) |
What can extend the efficiency of the PPC Curve? | New technology (drought could decrease curve) |
What is another name for factors of prodcution? | Means of production |