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WARM UP Make a list of 10 things you want!!!
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Announcements! 1. Take a look at your Class Grade before the end of the period! 2. Chapter 4 Test Next Week
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Scarcity The Economic Problem
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SCARCITY Limited Resources
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SCARCITY Unlimited Wants
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Economics Is… The study of limited resources but unlimited resources, which forces people to make a CHOICE!
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Opportunity Cost How much does it cost you to “attend” this particular “class session”? Think about it! Before going on, try to come up with an answer to this question. Talk with a partner.
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Opportunity Cost To answer the question, you should have asked yourself what else you could be doing during this time? Next, prioritize all of these other activities.
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Opportunity Cost The first item on your list of alternative activities is the opportunity cost of attending this class. Every activity has a cost - what you gave up.
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Opportunity Cost Because resources are scarce, choices need to be made. Choice results in cost. The cost of any choice is what you had to give up. This is called Opportunity Cost.
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Economics: TWO BRANCHES MicroeconomicsMacroeconomics “ Small Picture” “Big Picture” Study of individual Study of the economy units. as a whole. Looking at one thing Concerned with the at a time TOTAL picture Individual decision making Societal decision making
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Micro or Macro Write down the newspaper headlines #1-15 and determine whether it is a micro or macro issue!!!
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Four Factors of Production Land-natural resources Labor-an individual providing his/her services for wages Capital-equipment that can be used for production Entrepreneurship-someone that uses the first three resources to make a profit. Considered to be a “risk taker” and business leader.
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Copy the Table in your Spiral Notebook!!! LandLaborCapitalEntrepreneurship
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Determine which of the four factors of production it falls under: Computer Forests Cab driver Bakery Store Owner Petroleum Automobile Brain surgeon Factories Tractor Highway system Radio Mountains Small restaurant owner Minerals Pencil Computer software developer Waitress Ocean Fish
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Come Up With 3 Examples of Your Own and include it in your table Land: Labor: Capital: Entrepreneur:
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Collage of the Four Factors of Production (work with a partner) Create a collage that illustrates the four factors of production. Divide your paper into 4 equal parts, and have each “box” represent one of the four factors of production. Label one under each box. Find pictures that fall under each category.
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THE FOUR FACTORS OF PRODUCTION LandLabor CapitalEntrepreneurship
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Due to scarcity, every Society Must Answer 3 Questions: 1. What goods shall we produce? 2. How shall these goods be produced? 3. For whom should the goods be produced?
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In the U.S. the three Qs are answered as follows: 1. WHAT TO PRODUCE? U.S. production leans towards consumer goods & service 2. HOW TO PRODUCE? U.S. believes in private enterprise (corporations and small businesses privately owned) 3. FOR WHOM TO PRODUCE? U.S. production leans towards the large middle class
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