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Introduction to Economics
Welcome!
1) Take a Book (front of classroom)
2) Pick a desk carefully, it is for the entire semester!
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ECONOMICS
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The World & Resources People
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Why do we need Economics?
1) Resources are SCARCE
2) People have Unlimited Wants & Needs
FORCES:
3) Society to allocate resources
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Formal Definition of Economics
• The social science of how society allocates scarce resources among unlimited wants and needs.
End of Day 1
The social sciences are academic disciplines which study the social life of human groups & individuals •including economics, geography, history, political science, psychology & sociology
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• Economics is the social science of how a society allocates their scarce resources among unlimited wants and needs.
Air versus Oil
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There is NO Free Lunch
• Nothing is ever free in Economics
• People face Trade-offs in all decision making
• Decisions have :– Opportunity Costs: what you give up
– Opportunity Benefits: what you gain
– Short Run and Long Run implications
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Economic Decision MakingOpportunity Cost is the value of the next best alternative when you make a decision.
Make decisions where the opportunity benefit > opportunity cost
You decide totake 5 AP Classes
You put little effort into high school
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Opportunity Cost Worksheet
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Should I go to college?
Opportunity Benefit Opportunity Cost
Trade-off Analysis
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Branches of Economics
• Microeconomics looks at individual parts of economy:– How households & firms make decisions and interact in
specific markets
• Macroeconomics looks at the entire economy:– Economy-wide phenomena including: inflation, unemployment,
interest rates & GDP (economic growth)
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What is a Millenial?
Generation Y born between 1982-2000