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What Do You Mean You’re Out!? The Science of Scarcity.
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What Do You Mean You’re Out!?
The Science of Scarcity
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Need VS. WantOne night only
Water Rib-Eye Steak Food Exxon Gas Gas Shelter A Five Bedroom Home
NEED WANT NEED WANT NEED NEED WANT
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TINSTAAFL
T-There I-Is N-No S-Such T-Thing A-As A-A F-Free L-Lunch
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Sure there is!
You have a coupon for Buy one, get one free lunch at Wendy’s
Totally free to you, right?
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WRONG
Though its free to you someone had to…– Pay the Rancher for his cattle
– Pay the Truck Driver for delivery
– Pay the cook for preparing the food
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How does a business handle this?
Simply hidden costs– Typically the cost of your “free” burger is rolled
into the costs of something else Wendy’s sells Frosties Chili Salad
– In the end someone always pays for the “Free” lunch.
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Three Questions
When owning or operating a business there are three questions you must ask yourself.– What am I going to produce?– How am I going to produce it?– Who am I going to produce it for?
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Four Factors of Production
Land-Where you produce your goods Capital-It’s the money, tools, equipment,
machinery and factories used to produce your goods.
Labor-the people who help build your goods Entrepreneurs- You, the owners of the
company who took the risk in the pursuit of financial gain.
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Gross Domestic Product-GDP
The GDP is simply the final dollar amount of all final goods and services within the borders of a country.
Current US GDP: – 14.7 Trillion
Revenues: – $2.162 trillion
Expenditures: – $3.456 trillion (2010 est.)
Debt: 1.2 Trillion (2010)
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Why do we study such things?