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SCARCE: The general condition indicating that a good or resource is limited relative to the what people want. In terms of ALL resources and goods throughout society, the related term scarcity is used. Being scarce is what makes it possible to exchange goods and resources through markets, and most importantly, charge a price. If a good is not scarce, which means that the economy has more than enough to satisfy all available uses, then there is no way to sell it. Who would buy such an item, pay a price for it, give up something of value in exchange for it, when it is so abundant? Likewise, if a item is so abundant, using it to satisfy one use does not impose an opportunity cost on other uses.
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Lesson 4: Production Possibilities | Unit 2: The Schedule
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Opportunity Cost
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Tradeoff between the production of jogging shoes and clock calibrators.- Resources are limited: Producing more of one good necessarily means producing less of the other.
- This tradeoff represents the concept of opportunity cost.
- Opportunity cost tells us how many pairs of jogging shoes are given up to produce each additional quartz clock calibrator.
- Opportunity cost of first calibrator is 5 pairs of shoes.
- Opportunity cost of second calibrator is 5 pairs of shoes.
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THREE-SECTOR, THREE-MARKET CIRCULAR FLOW A circular flow model of the macroeconomy containing three sectors (business, household, and government) and three markets (product, factor, and financial) that illustrates the continuous movement of the payments for goods and services between producers and consumers, with particular emphasis on taxes and government purchases. Other circular models are two-sector, two-market circular flow; two-sector, three-market circular flow; and four-sector, three-market circular flow.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time wandering around the shopping mall wanting to buy either any book written by Isaac Asimov or a how-to book on building remote controlled airplanes. Be on the lookout for fairy dust that tastes like salt.
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