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PHYSICAL WEALTH: The ownership of productive resources, capital, and property and satisfaction-generating goods. Also termed real wealth. This should be contrasted with financial wealth that is based on ownership of financial or paper assets.
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Lesson 8: Market Shocks | Unit 1: Adjustments
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In this lesson we use the market as a tool to understand our economic world, specifically, we see how markets move from one equilibrium to another. One goal of this lesson: - Use the market model to examine the why and how of market shocks, adjustments to a new equilibrium.
Why do we do this?- Markets in the real world do not remain at the same equilibrium forever. Markets move. Prices and quantities change.
To understand real world changes, we need to analyze what happens to the market when a shock disrupt it.
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GAME THEORY An analysis that illustrates how the choices between two players affect the outcomes of a "game." Game theory is commonly used to explain the behavior and decision making of oligopolistic firms. It illustrates that cooperation, rather competition, between two "players" can lead to an outcome that is more beneficial to both players.
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The first U.S. fire insurance company was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 in Philadelphia.
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"We should never allow ourselves to be bullied by an either-or. There is often the possibility of something better than either of those two alternatives. " -- Mary Parker Follett, management coach
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FIML
Full Information Maximum Likelihood
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