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Econ/201 Micro Economics Paper

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Kim Tran
Grace Robbings
Econ&201 Microeconomics
September 21, 2015
Reading Comprehension Questions

1. What is scarcity? How does scarcity relate to trade-offs?

Scarcity is when resources are limited, therefore not available or sufficient to meet demand. Scarcity relates to trade-offs because due to resources being limited, all demands cannot be fulfilled. In that case, the consumer must choose to make a trade off in order to use what scarce resources they have to meet some but not all of the needs that they have.

2. What is meant by the term "opportunity cost"? Provide an example of an opportunity cost that does not involve an explicit monetary cost.

The term “opportunity cost” means to choose the best option to utilize scarce resources, …show more content…

Centrally planned economies tend to not have a problem with unemployment, and market economies do because market economies can’t predict supply and demand unlike how centrally planned economies know how much to produce in order to keep up with the need of the market. Market economies are able to keep up with shifts in demand, where centrally planned economies are unable to do so since they need permission from the single person or group that is in charge of decisions before making any changes to their output, which also makes them more efficient. A couple other differences are that centrally planned economies have compensation that is morally based, and the assets tend to be state owned, where a market economy’s compensation is usually material goods and the assets are privately owned.

6. What are the key differences between macroeconomics and microeconomics?

The key differences between macroeconomics and microeconomics are:

Macroeconomics analyzes the overall economy and the issues affecting it such a growth, inflation and unemployment, where microeconomics only studies how those issues affect individual markets and how they make decisions about allocating scarce resources.

The main focus in macroeconomics is to maximize national income and growth, while the goal in microeconomics is to maximize profit for firms and leftover resources for consumers and

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