Monday, 26 October 2009

The reasons for individuals, organizations and society having to make choices

Important definitions: economics, economic problem, household, microeconomics, macroeconomics, FoP's(factors of production), goods, services, land, labour, capital, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, factor endowment, production, want, scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, specialization, exchange, subsidy, division of labour, productivity, PPC-PPF(production possibility curve/ frontier), developed economy, developing economy, trade-off, economic growth productive potential,economic system, market economy, price system, supply, demand, command economy and mixed economy

Factors of production and their reward:
  • land - rent
  • labour - wage
  • capital - interest
  • entrepreneurship - profit
Example of developed economies: USA, UK, Germany, Italy, France, Japan
Examples of developing economies: China, Egypt, Malaysia, Czech Republic

Production Possibility Frontier / Curve:




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