Posted inEconomics The nature of economics Posted by admin August 19, 2021 Economics is the scientific study of the ownership, use, and exchange of scarce resources - often shortened…
Posted inEconomics Index numbers Posted by admin August 19, 2021 Economists frequently use index numbers when making comparisons over time. An index starts in a…
Posted inEconomics Marginal analysis Posted by admin August 19, 2021 Economic decisions are taken in a marginal way, which means that decisions to produce, or consume, are…
Posted inEconomics Increasing opportunity cost Posted by admin August 19, 2021 Opportunity cost can be thought of in terms of how decisions to increase the production…
Posted inEconomics Pareto efficiency Posted by admin August 19, 2021 Any point on a PPF, such as points 'A' and 'B', is said to be…
Posted inEconomics Interpreting PPFs Posted by admin August 19, 2021 Firstly, we can describe the opportunity cost to Mythica of producing a given output of computers or textbooks. For…
Posted inEconomics Production possibility frontiers Posted by admin August 19, 2021 An opportunity cost will usually arise whenever an economic agent chooses between alternative ways of…
Posted inEconomics Samuelson’s three questions Posted by admin August 19, 2021 America’s first Nobel Prize winner for economics, the late Paul Samuelson, is often credited with providing…
Posted inEconomics Choice and opportunity cost Posted by admin August 19, 2021 Choice and opportunity cost are two fundamental concepts in economics. Given that resources are limited, producers and consumers…
Posted inEconomics The economic problem Posted by admin August 19, 2021 All societies face the economic problem, which is the problem of how to make the best…