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Bellringer on full sheet today 1. Why did you choose to come to school today? 2. If you weren’t here right now what would you be doing?

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Bellringer on full sheet today1. Why did you choose to come to school today?

2. If you weren’t here right now what would you be doing?

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Opportunity Cost• Next best option

• Example: What you gave up to be here

• “I don’t get paid to be here”.

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What is economics?

• Study of how people make choices

• You made a choice by coming to class today

• But that choice also has a cost

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Economics

• People face trade-offs

• Hundreds of choices each day

• Every choice means you refuse something else

• Examples?

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Economists• Study how

people make choices

• Influential but not always famous

• Only 1 US president with econ degree

Alan Greenspan

Ben Stein

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Choice this morning

• Get up when alarm goes off

OR

Hit the snooze

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Choice #1Get up when alarm goes off

Choice #2Snooze for 10 more minutes

Atleast 2 benefits

Check the one you did today

Benefits refused

#3

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Choosing is refusing

• Your next best option:

• Opportunity cost

• All choices involve cost

4. Household example

5. Government example

6. Other example

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Tell your tableDescribe a time you received something for

“free”

(What was it, where was it, when was it, etc)

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There Is No Such Thing as A Free Lunch• Opportunity Cost

• There is no such thing as a free lunch (or breakfast)

• TNSTAFL

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There Is No Such Thing as A Free Lunch

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There Is No Such Thing as A Free Lunch

• Opportunity Cost

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There Is No Such Thing as A Free Lunch

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There Is No Such Thing as A Free Lunch

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There Is No Such Thing as A Free Lunch

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Example?

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One paper per groupWhat if stuff was “free”?

Create a cost/benefit analysis for each societal choice

1. College doesn’t cost $$

2. Dr. visits don’t cost $$

3. Drive on highways cost $$

4. All radio paid, like Pandora or XM

5. Music & movie downloads now legal

6. Make up one of your own

Benefits Costs

At least 2 At least 2

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On your paper:What if stuff was “free”?

Create a cost/benefit analysis for each societal choice

1. “Free” college

2. “Free” doctor visits

3. No free roads “toll roads”

4. No free radio, like Pandora or XM

5. All movie & music downloads “free” and legal

6. Make up one of your own

Benefits Costs

At least 2 At least 2