wants:the goodsand services that people may like tohave but are not alway. realized.
fundamente economic probiem
unlimited wants
demand supply
fundamental/Basic economic problem
scure resources but unlimited wants
scarcity
a situation in which wants and needs are g reater than the resoures available
Thereare certain.busic need that must be Scatisfied if we areto stay alive
food, shelter and clothings water
need
things that are necessary for survial
choise
opportunity cost
scarse resources
Unlimited wants
opportunity cost
the cost expressed of the next best alterntive that is forgone when a choise is made
choices
Scarcity
Finite Resources
Infinite Wants
What to produce
what to produce and in what quantities
What to produce
what to produce and in what quantities
Economic goods
a product which requires resources to produce it and therefore has an opportunity cost
Freegoods
a product which does not require any resources to make it and so does not have an opportunity cost.
chapter2 FACTORS OF PRODUCTOR
Factors of prouducton
the economic resources of land, labour, capital and enterprise
Lood
Gifts of nature arailable for production
interprise
Risk bearing and Key decision making in business
Labour
Human effort used in producting goods and sorvices
capital
Man-made goods used to supply other products
capital goods
human-made goods used in producton
consumer goods
goods and services purchased by purchased by households for their own satisfaction
occupationally Mobile
occapable of changing use
Gegraphcally Mobile
Capable of moring from one bcation to another location
Occupationaly immobile
Incaptable of changing use
Geograph cally immobile
Incaptable of moving from one location to another location
Most land is occupationally mobic
occupationally Land is geographically immobile/mobile
Mobility of labor
he ability of labour to change where it works or in which ocupation
Mobility of capital
the abitily to change where capital is used or in which occupation
Mobility of enterprise
the ability to chage where entrprise is used or in which occupation
Enterprise is the most mobile factor of production
Exterprise is geographically mobbile and occupational mobile
Quantity of land
does not change much
Quantity of natural resources
Fertiliesers irrigation pallution contral labor quantity is fluenced by the unrnber of workes available and the unmber of houhs
produivity
the cutput per factor of production in hour
labor productivity
output per worker hour
productivity
output
Quality of labor canbie impoved as result of better education , better training more experience and better healthcare.
Inverstment
spending on capital goods
capital is influenced by investment
CHAPTER4 PRODUCTION CURVES
Production possibility Curve
Asimple representation of the maximum level of output that an economy can achieve, given its current resources and state of technology; may be referred to as a production possibility frontier.