ECONOMIC SCENE The Opportunity Cost of Economics Education By ROBERT H. FRANK Published: September 1‚ 2005 SHORTLY after I began teaching‚ more than 30 years ago‚ three friends in different cities independently sent me the same New Yorker cartoon depicting a woman introducing a man to a friend at a party. "Mary‚ I’d like you to meet Marty Thorndecker‚" she began. "He’s an economist‚ but he’s really very nice." Forum: The Economy Cartoons are data. That people find them amusing usually
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scarce. What this means is that everything has a price‚ and nothing is free in this economic. Economics depends upon the phenomenon of scarcity because if the world didn’t have to pay for the thing that we need then the world will be very different if there wasn’t prices for everything then we will always be low on supplies. That is way we have a price for everything so that the supplies will not be low and that is why the supplies price rises every so often. 2.) Define opportunity cost. What is the
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The Cost of Something Mankiw’s Ten Principles of Economics Opportunity cost is the value of the next best alternative in a decision. Imagine that you have $150 to see a concert. You can either see "Hot Stuff" or you can see "Good Times Band." Assume that you value Hot Stuff’s concert at $225 and Good Times’ concert at $150. Both concerts cost $150 per ticket‚ but it would take you a couple of hours to drive to Hot Stuff’s concert and you have to be in school (the next) morning for an exam. Good
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the opportunity cost of each Plan. An opportunity cost is what must be given up in order to obtain some item (Mankiw 483). Specifically if you cannot accomplish both Plans‚ but have to choose one over the other‚ you would look at what you’re giving up from one in order to obtain the other. Opportunity costs are key when viewing economics‚ as we have to take things into consideration that may otherwise be ignored. For example when looking at the opportunity cost of a job‚ we must evaluate what job/salary
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Introduction Opportunity cost refers to what you have to give up to buy what you want in terms of other goods or services. When economists use the word "cost‚" we usually mean opportunity cost. The word "cost" is commonly used in daily speech or in the news. For example‚ "cost" may refer to many possible ways of evaluating the costs of buying something or using a service. Friends or newscasters often say "It cost me $150 to buy the iPhone I wanted." Definitions and Basics Opportunity Cost‚ from the
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What is the opportunity cost for me in taking this course? First‚ what is opportunity cost? To me it is merely a decision amongst two likely possibilities where you judge the benefits of one choice over the other. You can simply choose to do this or you can simply choose to do that. If someone goes to work straight out of high school it may be financially better for them short term‚ however‚ they may not receive the same amount of income had they went to college. Undeniably‚ a college degree will
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One of the SKUs has the following characteristics. Demand (D) = 20‚000 units/year Ordering cost (S) = $40/order Holding cost (H) = $2/unit/year Lead time (L) = 2weeks Cycle-service level = 95% Demand is normally distributed with a standard deviation of weekly demand of 100 units. Current on-hand inventory is 1.040 units with no scheduled receipts and no backorders. 1. Calculate the item’s EOQ. What is the average time‚ in weeks between orders? EOQ = (2DS)/H EOQ = (2*20000*40)/2 EOQ = 800000
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ASSIGNMENT No. 1 ECONOMIC ANALYSIS -522- SPRING 2010 Q. 1 DISCUSS IN DETAIL THE TERM ECONOMIC RESOURCES WITH REFERENCE TO SERVICE INDUSTRY. EXPLAIN THE LINK BETWEEN SCARCITY‚ CHOICE AND OPPORTUNITY COST. Ans: ECONOMIC RESOURCES are the assets (things of value) which an economy (or business) may have available to supply and produce goods and services to meet the ever-changing needs and wants of individuals (in the case of a business) and society (in the case of society as a whole.) REA (Resources
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Year Name: Date: Topic: Production Possibilities & Opportunity Cost 1. The slope of the production possibility frontier shows A. the technically efficient combinations of the two goods B. how factor inputs must be changed to keep them fully employed C. the opportunity cost of one good in terms of the other D. how consumers are willing to trade one good for another 2. A. OM B. OH C. YF D. MH 3. Which of the following will not shift a country’s production possibilities
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population will benefit‚ but as more technology develops our place in the world is at stake. Traveling back to the early 1900’s‚ the world didn’t have indoor plumbing. When plumbing was first invented‚ the world was overwhelmed. Now we are spoiled from such advances to the point that we can’t live without many of them. The downside will come‚ causing most of the population to lose their jobs to machines. Machines do not need lunch breaks and have no health risks‚ therefore are labeled “more efficient”
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