Understand responsible earning and spending Understand responsible earning and spending

4 basic economic activities of consumers  Earning  Spending  Saving  Borrowing

Student activitiy - earning  When was the last time you did something to earn money?  How did you earn it?  How did this make you feel?

Student Activity - spending  How do you decide on what to spend your money?

Student activity - saving  What was the last thing for which you decided to save money?  How do you ‘make yourself’ save?

Student activity - borrowing  When was the last time you decided to borrow money or something else?  How did things turn out?  What are your views on borrowing and lending?

Earning  Gaining money by working, owning a business, or receiving investment returns.  Money gained from earning is called earnings

3 activities that affect earning  Career choices – type of career/job and place of employment  Ability to find employment – education level; employability skills; prior job performance; economic conditions; workplace trends and opportunities  Ability to advance – type of career/job; education level; job performance; economic conditions; workplace trends and opportunities

Responsible earning  Involves realizing that career choices greatly affect lifetime earnings and standard of living and considering these factors when making career choices

SPENDING Using money to purchase goods and services. The way a person spends money determines the value received and influences the economy. Each purchase contributes to the demand for the product or service purchased.

Law of Scarcity An economic system cannot produce all goods and services that consumers want, and most consumers do not have the resources to purchase everything they want. Choices must be made about how limited resources (time, money) are used.

Basic Economic Problem We have UNLIMITED WANTS but have LIMITED RESOURCES

Trade Offs & Opportunity Cost When making a choice, other alternatives must be sacrificed. The highest-valued alternative that must be given up when a choice is made is the OPPORTUNITY COST of the choice. The choice of one item while giving up another is called TRADE OFF.

Responsible spending Includes researching and planning purchases in advance and making wise choices in light of opportunity costs and trade offs that apply