A person should take an action if, and only if, the extra benefit from taking it is greater than the extra cost. A market is the process by which the prices of goods and services are established.
A person should take an action if, and only if, the extra benefit from taking it is greater than the extra cost. A market is the process by which the prices of goods and services are established.
A person should take an action if, and only if, the extra benefit from taking it is greater than the extra cost. A market is the process by which the prices of goods and services are established.
- An economic principle in which a limited supply of a
good, coupled with a high demand for that good, results in a mismatch between the desired supply and demand equilibrium. Because of this, people must make choices among different items due to their unlimited wants but limited resources. The cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue a certain action. Put another way, the benefits you could have received by taking an alternative action. - A principle that says a person should take an action if, and only if, the extra benefit from taking it is greater than the extra cost. The principle of voluntary exchange is based on the notion that people act in their own self-interest. Self-interested people wont exchange one thing for another unless the trade makes them better off. (Wikipedia 2014) - A principle that states that there is a decrease in the marginal (per-unit) output of a production process as the amount of a single factor of production is increased, while the amounts of all other factors of production stay constant. (wikipedia 2014) - A person( or a firm or society) is more likely to take an action if its benefits rises, and is less likely to take if its cost rises. In short incentives matter. An incentive motivates a person to take an action. (Wikipedia 2014)
- What someone must make when faced with two or more alternative uses of a resource (also called economic choice). - All natural, human, and human-made aids to production of goods and services (also called productive resources).
One of the most fundamental concepts of economics and it is the backbone of a market economy.
c.2) Supply - represents how much the market can offer. - One of the many varieties of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations and infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange. While parties may exchange goods and services by barter, most markets rely on sellers offering their goods or services (including labor) in exchange for money from buyers. It can be said that a market is the process by which the prices of goods and services are established.
- A component of any economic system that uses prices expressed in any form of money for the valuation and distribution of goods and services and the factors of production.
-Measure of the quantity of output produced by one unit of production input in a unit of time.