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1.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Opportunity Cost
1.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Opportunity Cost
1.1 Scarcity, Choice, and Opportunity Cost
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Scarcity, choice, and
opportunity cost
I. What is economics?
II. Scarcity
III. Economic systems
a. Command economy
i. Communism
b. Free market
i. Laissez-faire
IV. Ceteris Peribus
V. Opportunity cost
a. Explicit costs and implicit costs
VI. Maginalism
VII. Efficient markets
a. Allocative efficiency
VIII. Production possibility curve (PPC)/Production possibility
frontier (PPF)
a. Constant opportunity cost
b. Increasing opportunity cost
IX. Trade off
X. Incentives