Chapter 4 Economic Efficiency‚ Government Price Setting‚ and Taxes Prepared by: Fernando & Yvonn Quijano © 2009 Prentice Hall Business Publishing Economics Hubbard/O’Brien UPDATE EDITION. Should the Government Control Apartment Rents? Learning Objectives 4.1 Distinguishing between the concepts of consumer surplus and producer surplus. 4.2 Understand the concept of economic efficiency. 4.3 Explain the economic effect of government imposed price ceilings and price floors
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Economics is production‚ distribution‚ and consumption of goods and services‚ or the material welfare of humankind. A couple things ive learned in economics class is the free market system and how goods and services can determine a free interprice system. It also helps us to know what is relationship between demand and supply. Another thing i learned about was how to plan a business and what is needed to make this business become successful by doing the business plan project which made me understand
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Macroeconomics Basic economics concepts Basic economics problems Production possibilities curve INTRODUCTION Economics is one of the oldest disciplines among the humanities and is categorized as a social science. Economics examines and analyses the economic activity of people in order to satisfy their needs and desires. Human wants are the starting point of economic activity and provide the basis for economics. Generally‚ economics deals with the economic problems of individuals
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Role of consumers: - consumers: all individ.s in ec. that consume goods and services to satisfy needs and wants - consumer sovereignty: refers to the fact that patterns of consumers spending determine patterns of production. Through spending dec. consumers express their preferences. Factors influencing individual consumer choice: Income: disposable income – after tax (main determinant on consumer spending) More income‚ more demand for good and services But APS
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back in her door before anybody and especially two evil villains such as Sulley’s main rival as a scarer chameleon-like Randall and Mike and Sulley’s boss Mr. Waternoose the chairman and chief executive officer of Monsters‚ Inc. One of the many economic principals evident in this movie is scaricty. Scarcity is defined as‚ the inability to satisfy all wants at the same time. Scaricty occurs becaseu all resources and goods are limited. For example‚ there was a scarcity of screams so the city lacked
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Why Clean Code Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. With understandability comes readability‚ changeability‚ extensibility and maintainability. All the things needed to keep a project going over a long time without accumulating up a large amount of technical debt. optimal Responsiveness Smells Rigidity The software is difficult to change. A small change causes a cascade of subsequent changes. General Follow Standard Conventions Coding-‚ architecture-‚ design
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the discount rate used to determine present values. Thus‚ all managerial decisions should be analyzed in terms of their effects on value‚ as expressed in this equation. Q1-3 Describe the effects of each of the following managerial decisions or economic influences on the value of the firm: A. The firm is required to install new equipment to reduce air pollution. New equipment installed will increase the operating cost. And the sales may increase if the customers have positive attitude to
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RECAP - MODULE OUTCOMES Introduction to macroeconomics Measuring performance of the economy The Monetary Sector The Public Sector Macroeconomic Theories Inflation Unemployment Economic growth and development The foreign sector THE PUBLIC SECTOR: STUDY UNIT 4 What are Your Views on Fiscal Policy and How Fiscal Policy Affects You? Roles of Government in a mixed economy 1. Establishing and enforcing rules of exchange such as Property rights‚ Contract law
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Economics is the study of social behavior guiding in the allocation of scarce resources to meet the unlimited needs and desires of the individual members of a given society. Economics seeks to understand how those individuals interact within the social structure to address key questions about the production and exchange of goods and services. First‚ how are individual needs and desires communicated such that the correct mix of goods and services become available? Second‚ how does a society provide
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1. What is the ‘economic problem’? The fundamental economic problem is related to the issue of scarcity. Scarcity means that resources are limited and short in supply in the world (e.g. diamond). Because of limited resources and unlimited demands‚ society needs to decide how much to produce and distribute these relatively scarce resources. The basic economic problem can be define as what to produce‚ how much to produce and for whom to produce. Some countries are lucky to have great natural resources
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