1) The document provides revision notes on GCSE Economics, covering topics like the fundamental economic problem of scarcity, factors of production (land, labor, capital, enterprise), opportunity cost, and production possibility curves.
2) It defines scarcity as insufficient resources to satisfy everyone's wants and needs, and lists the four factors of production.
3) Opportunity cost is defined as the next best alternative forgone when making a choice, which is never in monetary terms but rather the benefits of the alternative action not taken.
1) The document provides revision notes on GCSE Economics, covering topics like the fundamental economic problem of scarcity, factors of production (land, labor, capital, enterprise), opportunity cost, and production possibility curves.
2) It defines scarcity as insufficient resources to satisfy everyone's wants and needs, and lists the four factors of production.
3) Opportunity cost is defined as the next best alternative forgone when making a choice, which is never in monetary terms but rather the benefits of the alternative action not taken.
1) The document provides revision notes on GCSE Economics, covering topics like the fundamental economic problem of scarcity, factors of production (land, labor, capital, enterprise), opportunity cost, and production possibility curves.
2) It defines scarcity as insufficient resources to satisfy everyone's wants and needs, and lists the four factors of production.
3) Opportunity cost is defined as the next best alternative forgone when making a choice, which is never in monetary terms but rather the benefits of the alternative action not taken.
1) The document provides revision notes on GCSE Economics, covering topics like the fundamental economic problem of scarcity, factors of production (land, labor, capital, enterprise), opportunity cost, and production possibility curves.
2) It defines scarcity as insufficient resources to satisfy everyone's wants and needs, and lists the four factors of production.
3) Opportunity cost is defined as the next best alternative forgone when making a choice, which is never in monetary terms but rather the benefits of the alternative action not taken.
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Page 1 Nature of the economic problem The fundamental economic problem arises due to scarcity Scarcity is when there are insufficient resources to satisfy everyones wants and needs Finite resources and unlimited wants
Factors of Production Land Labor Capital Enterprise
Land Natural occurring resources used for production purpose
Examples: Earth on which mills are built Water in which fish is found Raw materials used to produce goods
Labour Manual and mental effort to produce or deliver goods and services People who are willing or able to work are known as labour work force.
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Enterprise The people who bring the other 3 factors of production together to produce goods and services are called entrepreneur. In this process they do the decision making and risk taking.
Opportunity cost The next best alternative foregone when a choice is made Opportunity cost is never in money value Opportunity cost is the benefits which could have been received by taking an alternative action.
Circumstances where opportunity cost is present Opportunity cost and consumers Opportunity cost and workers Opportunity cost and producers Opportunity cost and government
Situations Ali can buy a ball or a pen. He decides to buy the pen. The opportunity cost of buying the pen is ball. Rahul can buy a 1 cd or a burger meal. He decides to buy 1 cd. The opportunity cost of buying 1 cd is burger meal
Situations The government of china can either spend $2 million on roads or computer technology. It decides on spending on roads. The opportunity cost of the building the road is computer technology
Production possibility curve (PPC) It is a graph that shows the different rates of production of two goods and/or services that an economy can produce efficiently during a specified period of time with a limited quantity of productive resources