ECON 1B03 Midterm: 1BB3-Chapter-1-5.pdf

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Economics studies how society uses scarce resources to satisfy unlimited. Scarcity: leads to costs, these costs are known as opportunity costs. Equity: the benefits from society"s resources are distributed fairly. Efficiency: society getting the most it can from its scarce resources. Opportunity cost: the best (or the highest) alternative forgone. Includes, directs costs (actual money) and indirect costs (something you gave. Margin: a choice at the margin is a decision to engage in one more unit of an. Margins and incentives: choices are made at the margin and are influenced by incentives activity. Incentive: a motivation to perform a particular activity. When choices are made at the margin sunk costs are ignored. Sunk cost: a cost that has already been incurred and cannot be recovered. What is a market? two types of markets: Model: a description of how cause and effect work in some part of the. A place where buyers and sellers come together.

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