Wednesday, August 20, 2008

What Is Economics?

Exchange is the trading of goods for money or for other goods. A market is any mechanism for buyers and sellers to exchange goods. A free market is a market in which buyers and sellers are generally free to decide what to exchange and under what terms. Money is anything generally accepted as a medium of exchange and thus useful for storing or measuring economic value. The price of a good is the amount of economic value that must be exchanged to acquire it. Demand is willingness and ability to buy. Supply is availability and proffer for sale. The scarcity of a good is the excess of its demand over its supply, and in a free market is measured by price.
clipped from humanknowledge.net
Economics: the study of production, exchange, and consumption of
goods by persons.
Fundamental Concepts
Economic value is utility or desirability to persons, especially
as determined by free markets. Goods are anything which has
economic
value. The economic cost of a good is the economic value of the
goods and resources expended to produce it. Economic efficiency
is economic value divided by economic cost.

Production is the transformation of economic resources into
goods.
Economic
resources
are any natural resources, human
resources, or capital resources that are useful for production. Capital
is any product that is has utility for production. Human resources
are the labor, skills, and knowledge of persons.

Exchange

Consumption is any use of goods that subtracts from wealth
without
adding to production. Wealth is the economic value of what one
owns
minus what one owes. Income is change in net wealth plus the
value
of goods consumed.

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