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Types of Economic Resources
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Land/Natural Resources Entrepreneurship- Risk taken or idea person
Labor/Human Resources- Physical effort of humans Capital physical- anything (tools or items used to make something else. Normally made by humans) Human- Human knowledge and education (You are in training for a new skill)
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Land Water Oil Coal Trees
Anything that comes or originates from the Earth.
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Entrepreneurship The risk taker for creating a business
Example- Steve Jobs
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Physical Capital Man Made tools
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Human Capital The job training and knowledge needed to do a job.
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Marginal Analysis
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When making a decision on how to use a small amount of resources.
Example: Will one more hour help me make a higher grade on a test.
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Cost vs. Benefit Analysis
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Weighing the good vs the bad
A rational person will always pick the positive choice.
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Utility
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The amount of satisfaction you get from something.
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Marginal Utility
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How much satisfaction you are getting by repeating your action.
When eating a box of Oreos, do you enjoy the first cookie as much as the 60th?
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Efficiency
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Using your resources wisely
Not wasting anything
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Underutilization Wasting your resources
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Production Possibility Curve
A curve showing the rates of two goods or services an economy can produce efficiently in a given period of time.
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