... her part- time job for some extra spending money. scarcity the limited nature of society’s resources economics the study of how society manages its scarce resources CHAPTER 1 TEN PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS ... fully the strengths and weaknesses of the mar- ket’s invisible hand. A DAM S MITH FYI Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand CHAPTER 1 TEN PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS...
... founders of utilitarianism are the English philosophers Jeremy Bentham (17 48 18 32) and John Stuart Mill (18 06 18 73). To a large extent, the goal of utilitarians is to ap- ply the logic of individual ... amount of income— $10 0,000 in our example—were fixed. But, in fact, it is not. Utilitarians reject com- plete equalization of incomes because they accept one of the Ten Pri...
... Optimum Quantity of Pepsi 0 Price of Pepsi $2 1 (b) The Demand Curve for Pepsi Quantity of Pepsi 15 0 B A B A I 1 I 2 New budget constraint Initial budget constraint Figure 2 1- 1 1 D ERIVING THE ... in- come effect induces him to save less. Consumption when Young 0 55,000 $11 0,000 $50,000 Consumption when Old 10 0,000 Optimum I 3 I 2 I 1 Budget constraint Figure 2 1- 1 5 T...
... Y $8, 511 $ 31, 522 10 0% Consumption, C 5,808 21, 511 68 Investment, I 1, 367 5,063 16 Government purchases, G 1, 487 5,507 18 Net exports, NX 15 1 Ϫ559 Ϫ2 S OURCE : U.S. Department of Commerce. CHAPTER ... measure of the price level calculated as the ratio of nominal GDP to real GDP times 10 0 Billions of 19 92 Dollars 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 $8,000 $7,000 19 70 19 75 19 8...
... RICE Q UANTITY P RICEOF Q UANTITY Y EAR OF M ILK OF M ILK H ONEY OF H ONEY 20 01 $1 100 qts. $2 50 qts. 2002 $1 200 $2 10 0 2003 $2 200 $4 10 0 510 PART EIGHT THE DATA OF MACROECONOMICS a. Compute ... economic well-being rise more in 2002 or 2003? Explain. 6. Consider the following data on U.S. GDP: N OMINAL GDP GDP D EFLATOR Y EAR ( IN BILLIONS )( BASEYEAR 19 92) 19 96 7,662...
... market failure, p. 11 externality, p. 11 market power, p. 11 productivity, p. 12 inflation, p. 13 Phillips curve, p. 14 Key Concepts 1. Give three examples of important tradeoffs that you face ... CHAPTER 1 TEN PRINCIPLES OF ECONOMICS 13 In the 19 80s and 19 90s, for example, much debate in the United States centered on the government’s budget deficit—the excess of gov...
... is not always straight- forward. This tendency is rooted in one of the Ten Principles of Economics in Chap- ter 1: People face tradeoffs. Economists are aware that tradeoffs are involved in most ... just the sum of the activities of all these decision- makers in all these markets. The field of economics is traditionally divided into two broad subfields. Microeconomics is th...
... to turn 19 31 dollars into today’s dollars. A price index determines the size of this inflation correction. 19 65 Percent per Year 15 CPI GDP deflator 10 5 0 19 70 19 75 19 80 19 85 19 90 19 9 819 95 Figure ... 19 39 $920 2. Star Wars 19 77 798 3. The Sound of Music 19 65 638 4. Titanic 19 97 6 01 5. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial 19 82 6 01 6. The Ten Commandments 19 56...