ECON 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Comparative Advantage, Price System, Forward Price
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In war resources are wasted on weapons instead of devoting resources to usable goods. No area in the county has to do without commodities. Forward price the prediction of price of a good. Motivates or demotivates the production of goods based on the change of the forward price. No time period ever has to do without commodities. The price of x goes up but only has to pay less than its actual value. The price of x goes down for the producer becomes richer.