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Copyright 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies1-1
Chapter ObjectivesEconomic PerspectiveTheories Principles and ModelsMacro and MicroeconomicsIndividual’s Economizing ProblemSociety’s Economizing ProblemProduction Possibilities ModelUnemployment, Growth, and the FutureLast Word
Key Terms
End Show
1Limits, Alternatives, and Choices
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Chapter ObjectivesEconomic PerspectiveTheories Principles and ModelsMacro and MicroeconomicsIndividual’s Economizing ProblemSociety’s Economizing ProblemProduction Possibilities ModelUnemployment, Growth, and the FutureLast Word
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Chapter Objectives• Economics Defined
–Economic Perspective
• Role of Economic Theory• Microeconomics and
Macroeconomics• Scarce Resources
–The Economizing Problem
• Production Possibilities
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The Economic Perspective
• Scarcity and Choice–Opportunity Cost
• Purposeful Behavior–Utility
• Marginal Analysis–Marginal Benefits
–Marginal Costs
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Chapter ObjectivesEconomic PerspectiveTheories Principles and ModelsMacro and MicroeconomicsIndividual’s Economizing ProblemSociety’s Economizing ProblemProduction Possibilities ModelUnemployment, Growth, and the FutureLast Word
Chapter ObjectivesEconomic PerspectiveTheories Principles and ModelsMacro and MicroeconomicsIndividual’s Economizing ProblemSociety’s Economizing ProblemProduction Possibilities ModelUnemployment, Growth, and the FutureLast Word
Key Terms
End Show
Macro and Microeconomics
• Macroeconomics–Aggregate
• Microeconomics–Individual Units
• Positive Economics
• Normative Economics
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Chapter ObjectivesEconomic PerspectiveTheories Principles and ModelsMacro and MicroeconomicsIndividual’s Economizing ProblemSociety’s Economizing ProblemProduction Possibilities ModelUnemployment, Growth, and the FutureLast Word
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Individual’s Economizing Problem
• Limited Income• Unlimited Wants• A Budget Line• Attainable and Unattainable
Combinations• Tradeoffs & Opportunity
Costs• Choice• Income Change
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Individual’s Economizing Problem
Average Income, Selected NationsPer Capita Income 2004
Chapter ObjectivesEconomic PerspectiveTheories Principles and ModelsMacro and MicroeconomicsIndividual’s Economizing ProblemSociety’s Economizing ProblemProduction Possibilities ModelUnemployment, Growth, and the FutureLast Word
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Individual’s Economizing Problem
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Society’s Economizing Problem
• Scarce Resources• Resource Categories
–Land–Labor–Capital
• Investment–Entrepreneurial Ability
• Factors of Production
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Production Possibilities Model
• Full Employment• Fixed Resources• Fixed Technology• Two Goods
–Consumer Goods (Pizzas)
–Capital Goods (Industrial Robots)
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Production Possibilities Model
Production Possibilities Table
Type of Product
Pizzas (in hundred thousands)
Industrial Robots (in thousands)
Production Alternatives
A B C D E
10 9 7 4 0
0 1 2 3 4
Plot Points to Create Graph…
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Production Possibilities Model
Pizzas
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Attainable
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EconomicGrowth
Now Attainable
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Production Possibilities Curve
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Production Possibilities Model
Pizzas
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Law of IncreasingOpportunity Cost
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Production Possibilities Curve
Shape of the Curve
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Production Possibilities Model
Pizzas
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Under or Unemployment
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Unattainable
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Production Possibilities Curve
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Production Possibilities Model
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Optimal Allocation of Resources
Quantity of Pizza
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Unemployment Growth and the Future
• A Growing Economy
• Economic Growth–Increasing Resource
Supplies
–Increasing Resource Quality
–Technological Advances
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Present Choices & Future Possibilities
Goods for the Present
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Goods for the PresentPresentville Futureville
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CurrentCurve
CurrentCurve
FutureCurve
FutureCurve
Compare Two Hypothetical Economies
Implications of International Trade
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Pitfalls to Sound Economic Reasoning
• Biases
• Loaded Terminology
• Fallacy of Composition
• Post Hoc Fallacy
• Correlation but not Causation
Last
Word
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Chapter ObjectivesEconomic PerspectiveTheories Principles and ModelsMacro and MicroeconomicsIndividual’s Economizing ProblemSociety’s Economizing ProblemProduction Possibilities ModelUnemployment, Growth, and the FutureLast Word
• economic resources• land• labor• capital• investment• entrepreneurial ability• factors of production• consumer goods• capital goods• production possibilitie
s curve• law of increasing oppo
rtunity costs• economic growth
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