Ten Principles of Economics - Part 3

... is not always straight- forward. This tendency is rooted in one of the Ten Principles of Economics in Chap- ter 1: People face tradeoffs. Economists are aware that tradeoffs are involved in most ... just the sum of the activities of all these decision- makers in all these markets. The field of economics is traditionally divided into two broad subfields. Microeconomics is the...

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... amount of income— $100,000 in our example—were fixed. But, in fact, it is not. Utilitarians reject com- plete equalization of incomes because they accept one of the Ten Principles of Economics ... founders of utilitarianism are the English philosophers Jeremy Bentham (1748–1 832 ) and John Stuart Mill (1806–18 73) . To a large extent, the goal of utilitarians is to ap- ply t...

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... and con- sumption. For every hour of leisure she gives up, she works one more hour and gets $50 of consumption. Figure 2 1-1 3 shows Sally’s budget constraint. If she spends all 100 hours en- joying ... weekly consumption of $5,000 but has no time for leisure. If she works a normal 40-hour week, she enjoys 60 hours of leisure and has weekly consumption of $2,000. Figure 2 1-1...

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... Lightens Up 506 PART EIGHT THE DATA OF MACROECONOMICS CASE STUDY INTERNATIONAL DIFFERENCES IN GDP AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE One way to gauge the usefulness of GDP as a measure of economic well-being ... produced domestically, regardless of the nationality of the producer. 498 PART EIGHT THE DATA OF MACROECONOMICS “. . . IN A GIVEN PERIOD OF TIME.” GDP measures the value of...

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... 21,260 77 99 Mexico 8 ,37 0 72 90 Brazil 6,480 67 84 Russia 4 ,37 0 67 99 Indonesia 3, 490 65 85 China 3, 130 70 83 India 1,670 63 53 Pakistan 1,560 64 41 Bangladesh 1,050 58 39 Nigeria 920 50 59 Source: ... RICE Q UANTITY P RICEOF Q UANTITY Y EAR OF M ILK OF M ILK H ONEY OF H ONEY 2001 $1 100 qts. $2 50 qts. 2002 $1 200 $2 100 20 03 $2 200 $4 100 510 PART EIGHT THE DATA OF M...

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... her part- time job for some extra spending money. scarcity the limited nature of society’s resources economics the study of how society manages its scarce resources CHAPTER 1 TEN PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS ... ideas. In the rest of this chapter, we look at Ten Principles of Economics. These principles recur throughout this book and are introduced here to give you an ove...

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... 1 TEN PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS 13 In the 1980s and 1990s, for example, much debate in the United States centered on the government’s budget deficit—the excess of government spending over gov- ... the ten principles introduced here. Table 1-1 T EN P RINCIPLES OF E CONOMICS H OW P EOPLE #1: People Face Tradeoffs M AKE D ECISIONS #2: The Cost of Something Is What You Give Up...

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... nominal and real interest rates often do not move together. S OURCE : U.S. Department of Labor; U.S. Department of Treasury. 524 PART EIGHT THE DATA OF MACROECONOMICS changes in interest rates, ... University of Iowa tuition $ 130 $2,470 Gallon of gasoline $0. 23 $1.22 Three-minute phone call from New York to L.A. $2.50 $0.45 One-day hospital stay in intensive care unit $35 $2 ,3...

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... production of capital. One of the Ten Principles of Economics presented in Chapter 1 is that people face tradeoffs. This principle is especially important when considering the accumula- tion of capital. ... the quan- tity of inputs used in production and the quantity of output from production. For example, sup- pose Y denotes the quantity of output, L the quantity of lab...

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