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July 8, 2015
1. Concept of Elasticity
a. Elasticity demand - is the measurement of how responsive an economic
variable is to a change in another. It gives answers to questions such as:
"If I lower the price of my product, how much more will I sell?"
"If I raise the price of one good, how will that affect sales of this other
good?"
"If the market price of a product goes down, how much will that affect
the amount that firms will be willing to supply to the market?
f. The price elasticity of supply measures how the amount of a good that a
supplier wishes to supply changes in response to a change in price. [2] In a
manner analogous to the price elasticity of demand, it captures the extent
of horizontal movement along the supply curve relative to the extent of
vertical movement. If the price elasticity of supply is zero the supply of a
good supplied is "totally inelastic" and the quantity supplied is fixed.
2. Consumer behavior & utility maximization
a. Consumer - is a person or organization that uses economic
services or commodities.
b. Goods and services are the outcome of human efforts to meet the wants
and needs of people. Economic output is divided into physical goods and
intangible services. Goods are items that can be seen and touched, such
as books, pens, salt, shoes, hats, and folders.
c.
Necessity good is a type of normal good. Like any other normal good,
when income rises, demand rises. But the increase for a necessity good is
less than proportional to the rise in income, so the proportion of
expenditure on these goods falls as income rises.
a luxury good is a good for which demand increases more than
proportionally as income rises, and is a contrast to a "necessity good", for
which demand increases proportionally less than income.
d. A free good is a good that is not scarce, and therefore is available without
limits. A free good is available in as great a quantity as desired with
zero opportunity cost to society.
A good that is made available at zero price is not necessarily a free good.
For example, a shop might give away its stock in its promotion, but
producing these goods would still have required the use of scarce
resources.
e. In economics and other social sciences, preference is the ordering of
alternatives, based on the relative happiness, satisfaction, gratification,
enjoyment, or utility they provide, a process which results in an optimal
"choice" (whether real or theoretical). The character of the individual
preferences is determined purely by taste factors, independent of
considerations of prices, income, or availability of goods.
f. Maslows hierarchy of needs
Capital resources are goods produced and used to make other goods
and services. Basic categories of capital resources include tools,
equipment, buildings, and machinery.
n. In economics, marginal cost is the change in the total cost that arises
when the quantity produced is incremented by one unit. That is, it is the
cost of producing one more unit of a good. In general terms, marginal cost
at each level of production includes any additional costs required to
produce the next unit. For example, if producing additional vehicles
requires building a new factory, the marginal cost of the extra vehicles
includes the cost of the new factory. In practice, this analysis is segregated
into short and long-run cases, so that over the longest run, all costs
become marginal. At each level of production and time period being
considered, marginal costs include all costs that vary with the level of
production, whereas other costs that do not vary with production are
considered fixed.
The graph is plotted with Price, Cost and Revenue on the Y-axis and
Quantity on the X-axis.
If the good being produced is infinitely divisible, so the size of a marginal
cost will change with volume, as a non-linear and non-proportional cost
function includes the following:
If the cost function is not differentiable, the marginal cost can be expressed as
follows.
A number of other factors can affect marginal cost and its applicability to real
world problems. Some of these may be considered market failures. These may
include information asymmetries, the presence of negative or
positive externalities, transaction costs, price discrimination and others.