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Economic Issues
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Economics
• What is Economics?
• Macroeconomics vs. Microeconomics
• Demand and Supply
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What is Economics?
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What is Economics?• “Oikonomos” – One who manages a household • The production of goods and services• The consumption of goods and services
• The study of how the people allocate their limited resources to satisfy their unlimited wants (It is the study of how people make choices – involves sacrifice)
• Central Economic Problem: Scarcity
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Resources & Wants
• Resources are things that have value and are used to produce things that satisfy people’s wants (Supply)
• Wants are all of the things that people would consume if they had unlimited income (Demand)
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Resources
• Factor of production– Human resources: Labor– Natural resources: Land, raw materials– Manufactured resources: Capital
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Branches of Economics
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Macroeconomics
• The branch of economics that studies economics aggregates – demand and supply
• The part of economic analysis that studies the behavior of the economy of a whole – deals with economy wide phenomena e.g. GDP, CPI
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GDP & CPI
• GDP– A measure of the total income and
expenditures of an economy– The total market value of all final goods and
services produced within a country in a given period time
• CPI– A measure of the overall cost of the goods
and services bought by a typical consumer
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GDP & economic well-being
• GDP is a good measure of the economic well-being of a society
• GDP per person tells us the income and expenditure of the average person in the economy
• But it misses…– Leisure reduction increases GDP but may reduce
well-being– The value of clean environment– Non-market activities?
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Macroeconomic Issues
• Aggregate demand – The total level of spending in the economy
• Aggregate supply – the total amount of output in the economy
• AD > AS– Inflation– Balance of trade deficit (Export & Import)
• AD < AS– Recession– Unemployment
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Macroeconomic policy
• AD = AS– Demand-side policy– Supply-side policy
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Microeconomics
• The part of economic analysis that studies decision making undertaken by individuals and by firms
• Focus on the small part of economics
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Microeconomics Issues
• Choices:– What– How– For whom
• Opportunity cost• Rational decision making
– Weighting up the benefit (Value for money)
• Marginal Costs & Marginal Revenues• Social implications/consequences of
choices
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Economic Models
• “Ceteris Paribus” (other things being equal)
• Production Possibility Curve
• Circular Flow of Goods and Incomes
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Production Possibility Curve
• Microeconomics & PPC– Choices and opportunity cost– Increasing opportunity cost
• Macroeconomics and PPC– Production within the curve– Shift in the curve
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Goods and services
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The circular flow of goods and incomesThe circular flow of goods and incomes
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The Circular Flow of Income
• Macroeconomic issues– The size of total flows
• Microeconomic issues– Individual markets– Choices within goods and factor markets
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Economic Systems
• Command economy (Socialist/Communist)
• Free-market economy– Price mechanism: price respond to shortage
and surpluses– Equilibrium
• Mixed market economy
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Command Economy
• Planning– Consumption and investment– Matching of inputs and outputs– Distribution of output
• Advantages– High investment, high and stable growth– Social goal pursued– Low unemployment
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Command Economy
• Problem– Gathering information– Expensive to administer– Inefficient allocation of resources
• Inappropriate incentives• no system of prices
– shortages and surpluses– lack of response to consumer demand
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Free-Market Economy
• Based on free decision making by individuals and firms
• Demand and supply decisions
• Price mechanism– Price respond to shortage and surpluses– Equilibrium
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Goods Market
Dg shortage(Dg > Sg)
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Factor Market
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Df shortage(Df > Sf)
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The price mechanism:the effect of a rise in demand
The price mechanism:the effect of a rise in demand
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Competitive Market
• Perfectly competitive market
• Price taker