1. Economics is the study of how humans satisfy unlimited wants with scarce resources. It involves the analysis of production, distribution, consumption, and exchange of goods and services within an economy.
2. Microeconomics focuses on individual economic decisions and interactions, while macroeconomics analyzes the overall economy, including output, employment, inflation and economic growth.
3. The four key economic activities are production, exchange, distribution, and consumption. Production involves combining resources to create goods and services, exchange is the trading of goods and services for money, distribution is sharing income among factors of production, and consumption is using goods and services to satisfy wants.
The document discusses the consumption function and its key determinants. It states that consumption (C) equals autonomous consumption (C0) plus induced consumption which varies directly with disposable income (Yd) through a linear function. It also discusses concepts like the marginal propensity to consume (MPC), average propensity to consume (APC), multiplier effect, and aggregate demand. The multiplier expresses the ratio of the change in income to the initial change in investment and depends on the level of MPC. Aggregate demand (AD) equals consumption (C) plus investment (I) plus government spending (G) plus net exports.
Patinkin argues that the classical dichotomy between real and monetary sectors is invalid. When the money supply changes, it affects relative prices through the real balance effect. Specifically:
1) If money supply increases, prices rise proportionally. This reduces the real value of cash balances and lowers demand for goods, putting downward pressure on prices.
2) The real balance effect restores equilibrium by linking demand for goods and money - if prices fall, real balances and demand for goods rise, putting upward pressure back on prices.
3) Therefore, changes in the money supply can change the price level without affecting relative prices, reconciling monetary and real factors and invalidating the dichotomy between the two.
The Quantity Theory of Money states that there is a direct relationship between the amount of money in circulation in an economy and the general price level. Specifically:
1) As the quantity of money increases, the price level also increases, leading to inflation.
2) Irving Fisher elaborated on this theory in his 1911 work "Purchasing Power of Money" by introducing the Equation of Exchange: M * V + M' * V' = P * T, which relates the money supply, velocity of money, output, and the price level.
3) The theory is based on assumptions like the velocity of money and transactions remaining constant, but it has been criticized for not explaining cyclical price changes and
Utility is an important economic concept that represents satisfaction from consuming goods. Total utility is the overall satisfaction from consumption while marginal utility is the additional satisfaction from consuming one more unit of a good. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that as consumption of a good increases, the additional utility from each additional unit decreases. Indifference curves, which show combinations of goods that provide equal utility, can be used to analyze consumption behavior based on the utility theory and the marginal rate of substitution measures the rate at which a consumer is willing to substitute one good for another to maintain the same utility.
Permanent and Life Cycle Income HypothesisJosephAsafo1
The document discusses the Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH) and Life Cycle Hypothesis (LCH). It explains that according to PIH, consumption is based on permanent income rather than current income. Current income has both permanent and transitory components. The LCH suggests that consumption varies over a person's life cycle as they save when young and spend when retired to maintain smooth consumption levels. The LCH consumption function shows consumption depends on both wealth and income levels over a person's lifetime.
Key concepts covered include the law of diminishing marginal utility, the principle of equi-marginal utility, properties of indifference curves, and how budget lines represent the constraints consumers face when making choices.
Public expenditure plays four main roles: contributing to demand, coordinating economic impulses, increasing public goods, and creating positive externalities. It is determined by political priorities and interpretations of the economic situation. Public expenditure impacts GDP and can crowd out private investment. It may behave pro-cyclically or anti-cyclically depending on how governments react to changing revenues during economic downturns by reducing or increasing spending.
1. The document discusses general equilibrium theory (GET) and defines general equilibrium as a state where all markets and decision-making units are in simultaneous equilibrium.
2. It presents a simple two-sector general equilibrium model of an economy with two consumers, two goods, and two factors of production. Equations represent consumer demand, factor supply, factor demand, good supply, and market clearing for goods and factors.
3. With the number of equations equal to the number of unknowns, a general equilibrium solution exists in this Walrasian model under certain assumptions. GET provides a framework for understanding the complexity of economic systems through interdependent markets.
The document discusses the consumption function and its key determinants. It states that consumption (C) equals autonomous consumption (C0) plus induced consumption which varies directly with disposable income (Yd) through a linear function. It also discusses concepts like the marginal propensity to consume (MPC), average propensity to consume (APC), multiplier effect, and aggregate demand. The multiplier expresses the ratio of the change in income to the initial change in investment and depends on the level of MPC. Aggregate demand (AD) equals consumption (C) plus investment (I) plus government spending (G) plus net exports.
Patinkin argues that the classical dichotomy between real and monetary sectors is invalid. When the money supply changes, it affects relative prices through the real balance effect. Specifically:
1) If money supply increases, prices rise proportionally. This reduces the real value of cash balances and lowers demand for goods, putting downward pressure on prices.
2) The real balance effect restores equilibrium by linking demand for goods and money - if prices fall, real balances and demand for goods rise, putting upward pressure back on prices.
3) Therefore, changes in the money supply can change the price level without affecting relative prices, reconciling monetary and real factors and invalidating the dichotomy between the two.
The Quantity Theory of Money states that there is a direct relationship between the amount of money in circulation in an economy and the general price level. Specifically:
1) As the quantity of money increases, the price level also increases, leading to inflation.
2) Irving Fisher elaborated on this theory in his 1911 work "Purchasing Power of Money" by introducing the Equation of Exchange: M * V + M' * V' = P * T, which relates the money supply, velocity of money, output, and the price level.
3) The theory is based on assumptions like the velocity of money and transactions remaining constant, but it has been criticized for not explaining cyclical price changes and
Utility is an important economic concept that represents satisfaction from consuming goods. Total utility is the overall satisfaction from consumption while marginal utility is the additional satisfaction from consuming one more unit of a good. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that as consumption of a good increases, the additional utility from each additional unit decreases. Indifference curves, which show combinations of goods that provide equal utility, can be used to analyze consumption behavior based on the utility theory and the marginal rate of substitution measures the rate at which a consumer is willing to substitute one good for another to maintain the same utility.
Permanent and Life Cycle Income HypothesisJosephAsafo1
The document discusses the Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH) and Life Cycle Hypothesis (LCH). It explains that according to PIH, consumption is based on permanent income rather than current income. Current income has both permanent and transitory components. The LCH suggests that consumption varies over a person's life cycle as they save when young and spend when retired to maintain smooth consumption levels. The LCH consumption function shows consumption depends on both wealth and income levels over a person's lifetime.
Key concepts covered include the law of diminishing marginal utility, the principle of equi-marginal utility, properties of indifference curves, and how budget lines represent the constraints consumers face when making choices.
Public expenditure plays four main roles: contributing to demand, coordinating economic impulses, increasing public goods, and creating positive externalities. It is determined by political priorities and interpretations of the economic situation. Public expenditure impacts GDP and can crowd out private investment. It may behave pro-cyclically or anti-cyclically depending on how governments react to changing revenues during economic downturns by reducing or increasing spending.
1. The document discusses general equilibrium theory (GET) and defines general equilibrium as a state where all markets and decision-making units are in simultaneous equilibrium.
2. It presents a simple two-sector general equilibrium model of an economy with two consumers, two goods, and two factors of production. Equations represent consumer demand, factor supply, factor demand, good supply, and market clearing for goods and factors.
3. With the number of equations equal to the number of unknowns, a general equilibrium solution exists in this Walrasian model under certain assumptions. GET provides a framework for understanding the complexity of economic systems through interdependent markets.
Given by J.R. Hicks and R.G.D. Allen.
It is a reconsideration of the theory of Value. Again it was reproduced Indifference Curve theory of Consumer's demand in "Value and Capital" by Hicks.
Hicks revised demand theory by assuming consumers follow a preference hypothesis where they choose the alternative they prefer most from available options based on their preferences. Hicks presented demand theory using indifference curves to represent scales of preference, abandoning indifference curve analysis. He distinguished between strong ordering, where each item has its own ranking number, and weak ordering, where items are grouped but no internal group ordering exists. Hicks also introduced the direct consistency test and derived the law of demand using the methods of compensating variation and cost difference to decompose total effects into price, income, and substitution effects.
1) Ricardian equivalence observes that a cut in current taxation financed by future tax increases has the same present value as tax cuts financed by government bonds. It argues this means tax cuts will not affect short-run or long-run consumption.
2) The document uses household savings functions to show that if a tax cut is financed by bonds, household savings will increase by the full amount of the new bonds, so consumption remains unchanged.
3) It discusses how liquidity constraints can impact household consumption decisions. A binding liquidity constraint means a household cannot borrow and must consume all current income, leaving them worse off than with no constraint.
Consumption function shows the relationship between consumption and income. Keynes proposed the psychological law of consumption, which states that as income rises, consumption increases but by less than the rise in income. Consumption depends on both subjective psychological factors and objective external factors. The average propensity to consume is the ratio of consumption to income, while the marginal propensity to consume is the change in consumption from a change in income.
The document discusses cardinal and ordinal utility analysis, the law of diminishing marginal utility, consumer surplus, and the Engel curve. It explains that cardinal utility can be measured while ordinal utility focuses on preference ranking. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that the satisfaction from additional units of a good declines as consumption increases. Consumer surplus is the difference between the most one would pay and the actual price paid, representing surplus satisfaction. The Engel curve shows how spending patterns change with different income levels.
Don Patinkin criticized the neoclassical assumptions of homogeneity and dichotomization. He proposed the real balance effect to reconcile goods and money markets. The real balance effect posits that changes in the price level affect real purchasing power, which impacts demand for goods. When prices rise, real balances and goods demand fall, pushing prices back down. This feedback loop between prices, real balances, and goods demand is represented using the IS-LM model, where a fall in prices shifts the LM curve right, raising output and employment until full employment is reached. Patinkin argues this real balance effect denies the homogeneity assumption and integrates goods and money markets.
Joan Robinson developed growth models that rejected many neoclassical assumptions. Her models considered capital as durable and heterogeneous, not easily substitutable for labor. She argued the value of capital depends on distribution and cannot be estimated without knowing interest rates. Robinson built multiple models to analyze growth under different economic conditions. Her key model showed the relationship between the actual and desired rates of accumulation and profit. Steady growth required these rates to be equal, but various factors could cause them to diverge, making sustained steady growth difficult to achieve.
The document discusses the Phillips curve and inflation. It describes how the Phillips curve can shift due to changes in expected inflation, the natural rate of unemployment, and supply shocks. It also examines how inflation expectations, whether static, adaptive, or rational, affect the position and movement of the Phillips curve. The role of expectations in inflation is key. Finally, it outlines some costs of reducing inflation, like menu costs and shoe leather costs, as well as the costs of high and hyperinflation cases like Zimbabwe.
Public expenditure by governments has increased over time due to various factors:
1. Population growth has led to increased spending on public services like schools, housing, and healthcare.
2. Defense spending has risen to protect countries from foreign threats, consuming a large portion of budgets.
3. The expansion of administrative systems with more departments and elections has grown public administration costs.
4. Economic development through infrastructure projects, industries, and programs has required significant government funding.
Kaldor and Hicks developed the compensation principle to evaluate changes in social welfare resulting from economic changes that help some and harm others. Their principle states that if those who gain can compensate the losers and still be better off, the change increases social welfare. They used utility possibility curves to illustrate this, showing how compensation could move individuals to a higher indifference curve. Their theory was criticized for requiring interpersonal utility comparisons and assuming compensation actually occurs.
This document provides an overview of indifference curve analysis for consumer equilibrium. It discusses key concepts such as indifference curves, their properties, assumptions of indifference curve analysis, indifference maps, budget lines, price and income effects, derivation of demand curves, isoquants, iso-cost curves, short-run and long-run costs. The document contains definitions and explanations of these microeconomics concepts as well as examples and diagrams to illustrate them. It is intended as a reference for understanding consumer choice theory and producer theory using indifference curve and isoquant analysis.
Neo classical general equilibrium theory which is based on Walrasian theory of general equilibrium 2*2*2 model and Marshallian graphical representation
Consumer equilibrium refers to a situation where a consumer spends their income on purchasing goods in a way that maximizes their satisfaction. It occurs where the marginal utility per rupee spent equals the price, or where the marginal rate of substitution between goods equals the ratio of their prices. This happens at the point where the budget line that shows all affordable combinations of goods is tangent to the highest possible indifference curve on the indifference map, representing the consumer's preferred combinations.
Keynes proposed that as income increases, consumption increases but not as much as the rise in income, meaning the marginal propensity to consume is less than one. The relationship between consumption and income can be expressed as C=A+BY, where C is consumption, A is autonomous consumption, B is the marginal propensity to consume, and Y is real disposable income. When total income in a community increases, consumption spending also increases but to a lesser degree, so increased income is split between consumption and savings.
This document compares private and public goods and services. Private goods are ones that individuals directly pay for and owners can exclude non-payers from using. Public goods are ones that everyone in society can use, it is impractical to pay for individually or exclude non-payers, and can be used repeatedly without reducing benefits to others. For a good or service to be considered public, two factors must be met: if individuals paid for it, total benefits would be less than costs, and if the government paid for it, total benefits to society would be greater than costs. The document asks the reader to consider if all education should be a private service by writing an economic report analyzing the impacts on quantity, price, school and community environments,
The marginal productivity theory of distribution Prabha Panth
The document discusses the neoclassical theory of distribution and the concept of factor payments. It addresses the "adding up" problem of whether total factor payments will equal total product. Wicksteed showed that under constant returns to scale and factors paid their marginal products, total revenue will equal total costs through Euler's theorem. However, this assumes a linear homogeneous production function. Later economists like Samuelson and Hicks found the condition is only met at the minimum point of the long-run average cost curve, where a firm has constant returns to scale.
Keynes’s psychological law of consumptionAjay Samyal
1) Keynes proposed a psychological law of consumption which states that as income increases, consumption increases but not proportionately. The marginal propensity to consume is less than one.
2) Consumption depends mainly on current income. As income rises, the proportion of income spent on consumption (average propensity to consume) falls.
3) Keynes' consumption function can be expressed as C = a + bYd, where C is consumption, Yd is disposable income, a is autonomous consumption, and b is the marginal propensity to consume (MPC), which is less than the average propensity to consume (APC).
Classical economists believed that full employment was the normal state of the economy and any deviation from it was abnormal. They assumed a closed economy with homogeneous goods, laissez-faire policies, and a barter system. According to Say's law, supply creates its own demand so overproduction is not possible. The classical theory held that output and employment are determined by production functions and the demand and supply of labor, with diminishing marginal returns. Labor market equilibrium occurs at the wage rate where demand and supply of labor intersect.
Expectations and Economics policy by Zegeye Paulos Borko (Asst,...Zegeye Paulos
Expectationa and Economics policy
-What do we mean by the Rational Expectations Hypothesis [REH].
-What are the implications of the REH for the conduct of economic policy?
-The “Policy-Ineffectiveness Proposition” [PIP]
-What are the implications of the REH for economicmodeling? The “Lucas critique”
The document discusses several key concepts in economics including:
1. Economics is defined as the study of how humans satisfy unlimited wants with scarce resources. It involves the production, exchange, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
2. Wants are the desires that drive economic activity and can be classified as necessities, comforts, or luxuries depending on their importance. Utility is the satisfaction one gains from consuming goods and services.
3. Engel's Law states that as income increases, the proportion of income spent on food decreases while the proportion spent on other items like housing, clothing, education increases.
This document provides an introduction to economics, discussing key topics like scarcity of resources, economic activities, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and basic economic problems. It explains that economics involves recognizing scarce resources, prioritizing their use efficiently, engaging in economic activity, and understanding problems like poverty and inflation. Microeconomics examines individual decision-making in markets, while macroeconomics considers whole economy decisions made by governments. Some basic economic problems societies must address are what and how to produce goods and services, and who they should be produced for.
Given by J.R. Hicks and R.G.D. Allen.
It is a reconsideration of the theory of Value. Again it was reproduced Indifference Curve theory of Consumer's demand in "Value and Capital" by Hicks.
Hicks revised demand theory by assuming consumers follow a preference hypothesis where they choose the alternative they prefer most from available options based on their preferences. Hicks presented demand theory using indifference curves to represent scales of preference, abandoning indifference curve analysis. He distinguished between strong ordering, where each item has its own ranking number, and weak ordering, where items are grouped but no internal group ordering exists. Hicks also introduced the direct consistency test and derived the law of demand using the methods of compensating variation and cost difference to decompose total effects into price, income, and substitution effects.
1) Ricardian equivalence observes that a cut in current taxation financed by future tax increases has the same present value as tax cuts financed by government bonds. It argues this means tax cuts will not affect short-run or long-run consumption.
2) The document uses household savings functions to show that if a tax cut is financed by bonds, household savings will increase by the full amount of the new bonds, so consumption remains unchanged.
3) It discusses how liquidity constraints can impact household consumption decisions. A binding liquidity constraint means a household cannot borrow and must consume all current income, leaving them worse off than with no constraint.
Consumption function shows the relationship between consumption and income. Keynes proposed the psychological law of consumption, which states that as income rises, consumption increases but by less than the rise in income. Consumption depends on both subjective psychological factors and objective external factors. The average propensity to consume is the ratio of consumption to income, while the marginal propensity to consume is the change in consumption from a change in income.
The document discusses cardinal and ordinal utility analysis, the law of diminishing marginal utility, consumer surplus, and the Engel curve. It explains that cardinal utility can be measured while ordinal utility focuses on preference ranking. The law of diminishing marginal utility states that the satisfaction from additional units of a good declines as consumption increases. Consumer surplus is the difference between the most one would pay and the actual price paid, representing surplus satisfaction. The Engel curve shows how spending patterns change with different income levels.
Don Patinkin criticized the neoclassical assumptions of homogeneity and dichotomization. He proposed the real balance effect to reconcile goods and money markets. The real balance effect posits that changes in the price level affect real purchasing power, which impacts demand for goods. When prices rise, real balances and goods demand fall, pushing prices back down. This feedback loop between prices, real balances, and goods demand is represented using the IS-LM model, where a fall in prices shifts the LM curve right, raising output and employment until full employment is reached. Patinkin argues this real balance effect denies the homogeneity assumption and integrates goods and money markets.
Joan Robinson developed growth models that rejected many neoclassical assumptions. Her models considered capital as durable and heterogeneous, not easily substitutable for labor. She argued the value of capital depends on distribution and cannot be estimated without knowing interest rates. Robinson built multiple models to analyze growth under different economic conditions. Her key model showed the relationship between the actual and desired rates of accumulation and profit. Steady growth required these rates to be equal, but various factors could cause them to diverge, making sustained steady growth difficult to achieve.
The document discusses the Phillips curve and inflation. It describes how the Phillips curve can shift due to changes in expected inflation, the natural rate of unemployment, and supply shocks. It also examines how inflation expectations, whether static, adaptive, or rational, affect the position and movement of the Phillips curve. The role of expectations in inflation is key. Finally, it outlines some costs of reducing inflation, like menu costs and shoe leather costs, as well as the costs of high and hyperinflation cases like Zimbabwe.
Public expenditure by governments has increased over time due to various factors:
1. Population growth has led to increased spending on public services like schools, housing, and healthcare.
2. Defense spending has risen to protect countries from foreign threats, consuming a large portion of budgets.
3. The expansion of administrative systems with more departments and elections has grown public administration costs.
4. Economic development through infrastructure projects, industries, and programs has required significant government funding.
Kaldor and Hicks developed the compensation principle to evaluate changes in social welfare resulting from economic changes that help some and harm others. Their principle states that if those who gain can compensate the losers and still be better off, the change increases social welfare. They used utility possibility curves to illustrate this, showing how compensation could move individuals to a higher indifference curve. Their theory was criticized for requiring interpersonal utility comparisons and assuming compensation actually occurs.
This document provides an overview of indifference curve analysis for consumer equilibrium. It discusses key concepts such as indifference curves, their properties, assumptions of indifference curve analysis, indifference maps, budget lines, price and income effects, derivation of demand curves, isoquants, iso-cost curves, short-run and long-run costs. The document contains definitions and explanations of these microeconomics concepts as well as examples and diagrams to illustrate them. It is intended as a reference for understanding consumer choice theory and producer theory using indifference curve and isoquant analysis.
Neo classical general equilibrium theory which is based on Walrasian theory of general equilibrium 2*2*2 model and Marshallian graphical representation
Consumer equilibrium refers to a situation where a consumer spends their income on purchasing goods in a way that maximizes their satisfaction. It occurs where the marginal utility per rupee spent equals the price, or where the marginal rate of substitution between goods equals the ratio of their prices. This happens at the point where the budget line that shows all affordable combinations of goods is tangent to the highest possible indifference curve on the indifference map, representing the consumer's preferred combinations.
Keynes proposed that as income increases, consumption increases but not as much as the rise in income, meaning the marginal propensity to consume is less than one. The relationship between consumption and income can be expressed as C=A+BY, where C is consumption, A is autonomous consumption, B is the marginal propensity to consume, and Y is real disposable income. When total income in a community increases, consumption spending also increases but to a lesser degree, so increased income is split between consumption and savings.
This document compares private and public goods and services. Private goods are ones that individuals directly pay for and owners can exclude non-payers from using. Public goods are ones that everyone in society can use, it is impractical to pay for individually or exclude non-payers, and can be used repeatedly without reducing benefits to others. For a good or service to be considered public, two factors must be met: if individuals paid for it, total benefits would be less than costs, and if the government paid for it, total benefits to society would be greater than costs. The document asks the reader to consider if all education should be a private service by writing an economic report analyzing the impacts on quantity, price, school and community environments,
The marginal productivity theory of distribution Prabha Panth
The document discusses the neoclassical theory of distribution and the concept of factor payments. It addresses the "adding up" problem of whether total factor payments will equal total product. Wicksteed showed that under constant returns to scale and factors paid their marginal products, total revenue will equal total costs through Euler's theorem. However, this assumes a linear homogeneous production function. Later economists like Samuelson and Hicks found the condition is only met at the minimum point of the long-run average cost curve, where a firm has constant returns to scale.
Keynes’s psychological law of consumptionAjay Samyal
1) Keynes proposed a psychological law of consumption which states that as income increases, consumption increases but not proportionately. The marginal propensity to consume is less than one.
2) Consumption depends mainly on current income. As income rises, the proportion of income spent on consumption (average propensity to consume) falls.
3) Keynes' consumption function can be expressed as C = a + bYd, where C is consumption, Yd is disposable income, a is autonomous consumption, and b is the marginal propensity to consume (MPC), which is less than the average propensity to consume (APC).
Classical economists believed that full employment was the normal state of the economy and any deviation from it was abnormal. They assumed a closed economy with homogeneous goods, laissez-faire policies, and a barter system. According to Say's law, supply creates its own demand so overproduction is not possible. The classical theory held that output and employment are determined by production functions and the demand and supply of labor, with diminishing marginal returns. Labor market equilibrium occurs at the wage rate where demand and supply of labor intersect.
Expectations and Economics policy by Zegeye Paulos Borko (Asst,...Zegeye Paulos
Expectationa and Economics policy
-What do we mean by the Rational Expectations Hypothesis [REH].
-What are the implications of the REH for the conduct of economic policy?
-The “Policy-Ineffectiveness Proposition” [PIP]
-What are the implications of the REH for economicmodeling? The “Lucas critique”
The document discusses several key concepts in economics including:
1. Economics is defined as the study of how humans satisfy unlimited wants with scarce resources. It involves the production, exchange, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
2. Wants are the desires that drive economic activity and can be classified as necessities, comforts, or luxuries depending on their importance. Utility is the satisfaction one gains from consuming goods and services.
3. Engel's Law states that as income increases, the proportion of income spent on food decreases while the proportion spent on other items like housing, clothing, education increases.
This document provides an introduction to economics, discussing key topics like scarcity of resources, economic activities, microeconomics, macroeconomics, and basic economic problems. It explains that economics involves recognizing scarce resources, prioritizing their use efficiently, engaging in economic activity, and understanding problems like poverty and inflation. Microeconomics examines individual decision-making in markets, while macroeconomics considers whole economy decisions made by governments. Some basic economic problems societies must address are what and how to produce goods and services, and who they should be produced for.
Assignment of engineering economics by Bishnu BhandariBishnuBhandari12
1. Economics deals with how societies use scarce resources to produce and distribute goods and services. Engineering economics applies economic principles to engineering decision-making.
2. Microeconomics studies individual units like consumers and firms, while macroeconomics looks at aggregates like overall output and unemployment. The key difference is the level of analysis - micro looks at small economic units, macro looks at whole economies.
3. The scope of economics includes the study of economic activities and factors of production, the determination of incomes and prices, and the analysis of individual and aggregate behavior. Economics aims to understand both how the economy works and how to improve economic outcomes.
This document provides an introduction to microeconomics. It defines key economic concepts like economy, economics, scarcity and factors of production. It explains the differences between positive and normative economics and describes different types of economic systems including traditional, command, market, socialist and mixed economies. Specific examples are given for some systems. The four basic economic questions and three E's in economics - efficiency, effectiveness and equity - are also outlined.
This document provides an overview of health economics by defining the topic, explaining its importance, and discussing some key concepts. Specifically:
- Health economics is defined as the application of economic theories and techniques to the health sector to understand topics like resource allocation, efficiency, and the impact of health services.
- It is an important field because the health sector is large and growing, governments play a major role in health markets, health markets differ from others due to factors like uncertainty and insurance, and health issues can create externalities.
- Some unique aspects of health markets include asymmetric information between providers and patients, the prominence of insurance, the large role of non-profit providers, and the importance of equity and need in
Economics, Theory of Demand & Supply, Micro & Macro Economy, Economy of Scale...samiyatazeen2
Economics is the study of how people allocate scarce resources for production, distribution, and consumption, both individually and collectively. The two branches of economics are microeconomics and macroeconomics. Economics focuses on efficiency in production and exchange.
Demand and supply is one of the most integral aspects of economics.
The theory defines the relationship between the price of the commodity and the willingness of the buyers to either buy or sell that commodity.
The theory of demand and supply is based on the law of demand and the law of supply. The two laws come together to determine the actual market price and the volume of commodities in a market.
The law of supply and demand combines two fundamental economic principles describing how changes in the price of a resource, commodity, or product affect its supply and demand.
This document provides an overview of basic economic concepts. It discusses that economics is concerned with production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. It focuses on how individuals, businesses, governments, and nations make choices to allocate scarce resources. Economics can be broken down into microeconomics, which focuses on individual agents, and macroeconomics, which looks at the economy as a whole. Building economics applies general economic principles to the construction industry. The document also introduces concepts like needs and wants, scarcity, utility, and the laws of supply and demand.
The document provides an introduction to health economics. It defines economics and explains that health economics deals specifically with how limited healthcare resources are used to meet unlimited healthcare wants and needs. It also discusses the demand for healthcare, noting that demand depends on both the demand for health as well as perceptions of how healthcare impacts health. The document also outlines some of the key requirements of healthcare systems, including being economical, effective, efficient, and equitable. Finally, it briefly discusses the concepts of demand and supply in healthcare markets.
This document provides an introduction to microeconomics. It discusses the definitions of economics, focusing on the scarcity definition. It also covers opportunity cost and the production possibilities frontier to illustrate scarcity. The document outlines the scope, methodology, and branches of economics, distinguishing between positive and normative analysis. Microeconomics is defined as dealing with the behaviors of individual economic units like consumers and firms.
This document provides an overview of macroeconomics concepts. It begins with defining economics and its origin from the Greek words oikos and nomus, meaning household management. It then discusses the central problem of scarcity due to limited resources and unlimited wants. Factors of production and the circular flow model showing the flow of resources and payments between households and businesses are introduced. Opportunity cost, basic economic questions around consumption, distribution and growth, and the types of economic systems are also summarized. Finally, it distinguishes between positive and normative economics and microeconomics versus macroeconomics.
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This document discusses key economic concepts including:
1. Microeconomics analyzes individual consumers and firms to understand decision making, while macroeconomics analyzes whole economies and factors like employment, GDP, and prices.
2. Opportunity cost is what must be given up to obtain something else, such as time spent traveling instead of working.
3. Scarcity means human wants exceed limited resources, creating an fundamental economic problem of how to allocate resources.
Some Basic Definitions of microeconomicsLeighTajon
This document defines key concepts in microeconomics and differentiates it from macroeconomics. It explains that microeconomics examines small economic units like individuals, households and firms, and deals with how they make choices. Macroeconomics looks at aggregates like overall output and unemployment. It also outlines the three basic economic problems of what to produce, how to produce and who gets what is produced. Opportunity cost and positive and normative economic analysis are defined.
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This document provides an overview of key concepts in economics relevant to understanding health economics. It defines economics as the study of how scarce resources are used to satisfy human wants. Key concepts explained include goods, services, scarcity, opportunity cost, utility, demand, supply, and different economic systems. The global economy operates under different systems such as capitalism, socialism, and mixed economies. Understanding basic economics concepts is necessary to study health economics.
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1. 1
Importance of Economics utility
Value of economic products with reference to price &
wealth
Classification of wants with reference to necessaries,
luxury and comforts
Characteristics of wants
2. 2
Economics means…?
Economics is a study of the economic problems of the people living in a community. Hence, Economics is a
Social Sciences which deals with human activities for satisfying their needs by consuming their available
wealth.
Economic utility
Economic utility
to Engineers and
managers
3. Difference Between Economics and Economy
BASIS FOR COMPARISON ECONOMICS ECONOMY
Determines How human beings make
decisions when there is
scarcity of resources?
How resources are allocated
among different members of
society?
Focuses on The way in which economic
agents behave and interact
and the way in which
economies work.
The way in which country's
economic affairs are
organized and conducted.
3
Basically, economics is the study of an economy, i.e. its structure,
condition, working, performance, issues, remedies, etc. It includes the analysis
of the different types of the economic system and economic decisions.
On the other hand, an economy indicates a region, a particular area or
country, concerning production, distribution, consumption, and exchange of
goods and services, and supply of money.
4. GOODS
• Anything material or immaterial, which can satisfy human wants are
goods.
4
Free goods Economic Goods
➢Supply is unlimited and infact more than
required.
➢Eg: water of the ocean, sand of the
desert
➢Transferable goods, the supply of which
is scarce in relation to demand are
economic goods.
➢Scarcity is not a fixed quantity.
5. Definitions:
• Adam Smith: Economics is a science of wealth. Its nature and
uses.
• Alfred Marshal: Economics is a study of men’s actions in the
ordinary business life. i.e; the study of science of human welfare.
• Lionel Robbins: The Science which studies human behaviour as a
relationship between wants or ends and scarce resources which
have a alternative uses.
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6. Salient features of Robbins definition:
• Unlimited wants: Wants are unlimited in number and it is difficult to satisfy all
those.
• Scarce resources: The resources are said to be scarce when they are limited in
supply with relation to the total demand.
Economic problems arise only because of scarce resources.
• Alternative uses: A commodity or goods can be put into different alternative uses.
• Choice: of all the alternative uses, decision has to be made to satisfy the unlimited wants
with the available scarce resources.
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7. Types of Economics
1. Micro-Economics:
It is the microscopic view of the economy, wherein the economic activity of small individual
units and their decisions related to production, exchange, distribution and consumption are
studied so as to know how prices and quantities of goods and wage rate of the workers are
determined.
These small individual units, i.e. person, household, firm, industry, government, etc. when
taken together, make up the entire economy.
Microeconomics discusses the choices made by the people in an economy and the factors
which influence those choices. Further, it studies, how the decisions of the economic agents
regulate the utilization and distribution of scarce resources and how these decisions influences
the demand and supply of the commodity, which determines its price.
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8. SUBJECT MATTER OF MICROECONOMICS
• Consumer Behavior
• Product Pricing
• Factor Pricing
• Production Costs
• Demand
• Supply
• Location of Industry
• Behavior of Firms
• Economic condition of people of the economy.
• Market Equilibrium
• Market Structure
• Non-Competitive Market
The primary aim of the microeconomic analysis is reaching the state of
equilibrium, from the perspective of individual economic units. 8
9. 2. Macro-Economics
➢ The word “Macro” is derived from Greek word “Makros”, “large or very big”.
➢The Macro economics studies the economy as a single unit. It does not deal
with Individual units. It deals with the aggregates ‘or’ totals and averages.
➢Eg: Total national income, total employment of the nation, overall output of a
business organisation, total investment and aggregate consumption.
Macro economics is concerned with such variables as a aggregate volume of
output of a economy with the extend to this resources are employed with the size
of the national Income and with the general price level.
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10. The Macro economics analyzes some problems of
the economy
● Level of output and employment
● Fluctuations in level of output, employment and National Income
● Changes in the general price level
● Economic growth and economic development
● Theories of distribution
Significance of Macro economics:
● Understanding the working of an economy
● Formulating policies
● Prepare the economics plans
● Take the remedial measures of trade cycles & Inflation
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11. GDP vs. GNP: An Overview
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the value of a nation's finished
domestic goods and services during a specific time period.
gross national product (GNP), is the value of all finished goods and
services owned by a country's residents over a period of time.
Both GDP and GNP are most commonly used measures of a country's
economy, both of which represent the total market value of all goods
and services produced over a defined period.
There are differences between how each one defines the scope of the
economy. While GDP limits its interpretation of the economy to the
geographical borders of the country, GNP extends it to include the net
overseas economic activities performed by its nationals.
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12. Subject Matter of Economics
➢In economics, a want is something that is desired.
➢Want is the starting point of economic activity.
Wants leads to efforts. An effort leads to satisfaction.
➢This is the subject matter of economics. This subject
matter of economics is divided into four parts. They
are called economic activities.
1. Production
2. Exchange
3. Distribution
4. Consumption
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13. 1.Production: In economics, Production involves the
creation of goods and services by using resources. It is
a process to change the raw materials into
final/finished goods. It is nothing but creation of utility.
To produce anything, so many factors are essential. All
these factors are classified into four categories. They
are:
● Land
● Labor
● Capital
● Organization
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14. 2.Exchange: It means change of the goods from one person to another person. Once upon a
time goods are exchanged for goods. It is called “Barter system”.
To overcome the Inconveniences in the barter system, currency was invented. Now the goods
are exchanged for money. Price is essential for the exchange of goods for money.
3. Distribution: Distribution means sharing of the income among the factors of production.
The total income which is generated by selling of these goods and services in the market
must be distributed among the factors of production in the form of rent, wages, interest and
profits.
4. Consumption: It is an act to use the goods or service to satisfy the wants.
Whenever we make use of any commodity or service for the satisfaction of our wants, the
act is called consumption.
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15. UTILITY (value in use)
➢The capacity of a commodity to satisfy human wants is known as its Utility.
➢Utility is a measure of satisfaction an individual gets from the consumption of
the commodities. In other words, it is a measurement of usefulness that a
consumer obtains from any good.
➢A utility is a measure of how much one enjoys a movie, favourite food, or other
goods. It varies with the amount of desire.
➢Utility of an article is not inherent in a commodity, it is the relationship existing
between the consumer and commodity.
➢Utility of a product is not fixed and varies according to the urgency of the human
wants that it satisfies.
➢Eg: Water, AC’s in summer & winter, etc.
16. Characteristics of utility:
● Utility is a subjective concept: It is a psychological concept. It is the mental
assessment of a commodity. So utility differs from person to person because
of difference in taste, preferences, likes and dislikes of a person.
E.g., chalks have more utility to a teacher than a student.
● Utility is a relative term: It is related to time and place. With change in time
and place, utility of the same commodity changes.
Cold drinks have more utility during summer than winter. Woolen clothes
have more utility in Kashmir than Jaipur.
● Utility depends on the intensity of want: More urgent or intense the want,
more will be the utility.
E.g. Books have more utility to students just before the exams.
17. Characteristics of utility Contd...
● Utility differs from usefulness: Utility indicates the power of a good to satisfy
human wants irrespective of whether it is good or bad or harmful. While
usefulness means that the commodity is beneficial or desirable. A commodity may
have utility but may not be useful.
E.g., cigarette is injurious to health, it is not useful but it has utility to a smoker.
● Utility cannot be measured: Utility is psychological and subjective. It is intangible.
So it cannot be measured numerically. It can only be expressed ordinally or
cardinally.
Eg 1: first slice of bread will have very high utility for a very hungry person than
the 2nd slice. (ordinally)- Ranking or preference or comparision
Eg 2: Consuming first slice of bread is giving 20 utils, then consuming second slice
of bread is giving 15 utils. (cardinally)- satisfaction levels in terms of some scalable
numbers.
● Utility differs from satisfaction: Utility and satisfaction are related but there is a
difference. Utility is expected satisfaction and is measured before the use of
commodity while satisfaction is actual realisation which comes after consumption.
18. VALUE
• It is the power of a commodity to command other commodities in
its exchange.
• Value express the relationship or ratio between two commodities
and depends like utility upon external circumstances and it is not
determined by internal characteristics.
• An article possessing utility may or may not have value but no article
can have value unless it possess utility.
• To possess value in exchange, a commodity must be only in use or
possess utility, but also it must be limited in supply.
• The more the supply is limited, the greater is the value.
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19. 19
Value
Measured as Price
(value expressed in
terms of money)
Measured in terms of Wealth
Product should have
utility/consumption by
consumers
Product availability
should have
scarcity, thereby its
value increase
Product should be in
position to be
transferred as per the
owner’s choice
Value of a product exists, if it can be utilized to get another product in exchange……
Eg: Money/Gold/Assets has more value than most of the manufacturing products, as
they are capable of generating another product of our choice of same value in exchange.
Learning outcome: Define utility and time value of economic goods. [L1]
20. WEALTH
• Wealth is synonymous with economic goods.
• Wealth consists of all those commodities which are exchangeable.
Attributes of Wealth:
1. Utility: An article can have value only if it is capable of satisfying some human
want, i.e.; if it has utility and without which no article can become wealth.
2. Scarcity: It must be scarce in relation to demand as no article can have value if
it is in excess of demand.
3. Transferability: It must be transferrable as none would demand a commodity
of which he can not be owner. But it is not to confused with portability.
• Thus the term wealth includes not only those material goods which are
transferrable and external (eg: buildings, machinery, etc.), but also non
material goods which are external to men and are transferrable. (eg: good will
of the business, copyright of a book, etc.) 20
21. Classification of wealth
Personal or Private wealth: It is the wealth which belongs to certain person.
It includes all those economic goods which belongs to him and which he can sell.
Eg: The debts which an individual owes to the others may be regarded as his negative wealth and they
must be subtracted from his good possessions to arrive at his true net wealth.
Collective or communal wealth: It is the wealth owned by municipal boards or provincial and central
governments.
Eg: Public buildings, public parks, roads, harbours, etc.
Municipal government bodies represents the community and their wealth may be regarded as the
wealth collectively owned by the citizens.
National wealth: It is still wider and it includes:
a) Personal wealth of all citizens of country.
b) Collective wealth of the nation.
c) Natural advantages possessed by a country. Eg: Geographical position, climatic conditions,
mineral resources, etc.
d) Non-material elements like characteristics of members of the nation and reputation of the
country.
Cosmopolitan or International wealth: It includes the wealth belongs to all the nations of world plus
the wealth shared by all of them in common.
Eg: Oceans, scientific knowledge, mechanical and atomic inventions, etc:
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22. WANTS
• Want is the desire, ability and willingness to consume a product.
Essentials of a want:
• There ought to be desire for an article.
• There ought be the ability to satisfy it or in other words, the possession of the
means of its satisfaction.
• There must be a willingness of spare the means for the purpose.
When desire is backed by ability and willingness to satisfy, it is called effective
desire or want.
Circle of wants and activities:
Wants and economic are very closely related and infact, wants are the real motive
force which sets the entire economic mechanism into motion.
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23. CHARACTERISTICS OF WANTS:
• Wants in general are unlimited.
• Each particular want is capable of complete satisfaction.
• Wants vary in intensities.
• Wants are competitive.
• Wants are recurrent.
• Some wants are compulsory.
• Present wants are more important than future wants knowledge increases
wants.
• Wants are determined by social standards of tastes and is particularly true for
wants for clothing, shelter and amusements, etc.
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24. Classification of Wants
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Wants
Preliminary wants Secondary wants
Physiological
needs
(Necessaries for
existence)
Manipulative skills
(Necessaries for
efficiency)
Social/convective
needs
(Necessaries for
social being)
Comforts
(Necessaries for
pleasure)
Luxury
(Necessaries for
great pleasure)
(1) Necessaries: Necessaries are those wants which are very important
and if they remain unsatisfied, more pain is caused and satisfaction is necessary for
the preservation of life, efficiency or social prestige.
25. Necessaries for existence:
• The articles which are just necessary for the preservation of life are known as
necessaries for existence.
Eg: food, clothing and shelter, without which life can’t be preserved.
• These are not the same in all the countries, climates and all the time to time.
Necessaries for efficiency:
• The articles which are necessary for the preservation of one’s efficiency in the
occupation he is engaged in.
• He has consume certain things over and above the bare necessaries of existence,
which are known as necessaries for efficiency.
Eg: well-balanced food, good clothing’s, and furniture, airy, well-ventilated house
for shelter, good children’s education, medical treatments, etc.
Conventional necessaries:
• These are consumed for social convention and prestige because man as a
member of society has to follow certain set of conventions and traditions to
avoid a bad name and ex-communication.
Eg: Pan, tobacco, alcohol, etc. 25
26. (2) Comforts: The consumption of these articles affords appreciable pleasure and also
increases consumer’s efficiency slightly, while their neither non consumption causes much
pain nor decreases actual efficiency are known as comforts and are necessary for decent
living.
Eg: Cosmetics, Good shoes and branded cloths, etc.
(3) Luxuries: These are the articles whose consumption affords very great pleasure, but
does not contribute to our efficiency and whose non consumption neither causes any pain
nor decreases our efficiency.
Eg: Duplex houses or villas, costly cars, etc.
❖ There are certain articles of luxury like wine which gives us only fleeting pleasure but
decreases our efficiency quite considerably and are known as extravagancies.
❖ Learning outcome: Distinguish between necessities, comforts and luxuries. [L2]
❖ Session quiz:
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27. Theory of Consumption
Engel’s Law of consumption:
Categories families
(i) The labour class
(ii) The middle class
(iii) The well-to-do class
Items of expenditure:
(i) Food (ii) Clothing (iii) Lodging (iv) Heat, Light & Fuel (v) Education, Health, Servants & Miscllaneous,
etc.
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Items of expenditure
Percentage of its income spent by
Labour class Middle class Well-to-do-class
Food 60 55 50
Clothing 18 18 18
Lodging 12 12 12
Heat, Light & Fuel 5 5 5
Education, Health, Servants
& Miscellaneous, etc.
5 10 15
Total 100 100 100
28. Theory of Consumption
Assumptions:
❖ Range of products available
❖ Prices of all products
❖ Capacity of products to satisfy
❖ Income
Utility - The benefit or satisfaction that a person gets from the consumption of a
good or service.
Utility Analysis: Numerical score represents the satisfaction.
Eg: (i) buying 3 copies of books gives more happiness than buying a shirt.
(ii) Comparison between two food items A&B, A>B OR B>A, Relationship between
two goods.
Utility Function:
U= F(X, Y)
Total Utility= U(X) + U (Y)
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29. Utility Measurement
Basis for comparison Cardinal Ordinal
1. Meaning Expressed numerically (Utils) Can’t be expressed numerically,
can do ranking or comparison
2. Approach Quantitative Qualitative
3. Realistic Less More
4. Analysis Marginal Utility Analysis Indifference curve analysis
5. Promoted by Classical & Neo-Classical
Economics
Modern Economics
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Eg 1: Food in three restaurants
Total satisfaction: 1- 10 Utils, 2- 12-Utils, 3- 18 Utils---- cardinal
Total satisfaction: 3-2-1----- Ordinal
Eg 2: Goods Utils (Cardinal) Rank order (Ordinal)
X1 14 2nd
X2 03 5th
X3 10 3rd
X4 08 4th
X5 17 1st
30. TOTAL UTILITY
• It is the total utility of a
consumer derives from the
consumption of all the utils
of a good or a combination of
goods over a given
consumption period.
MARGINAL UTILITY
• It refers to the additional utility
derived from consumption of an
additional unit.
• Marginal Utility is the slope of the
total utility curve.
• MU= (Change in TU)/ Change in Q
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31. 31
Theory of Consumption
• A household’s consumption choices are determined by
• Budget constraint
• Preferences.
1. Law of Diminishing Marginal utility: States that “The marginal
utility derived from every additional unit increase in the quantity of a good consumed
goes on decreasing, while other things remains the same.
Conditions:
(1) The unit must of consumption (nature, size & quality) must be standard one.
(2) Consumption must be continuous i.e.; zero time interval between two levels of consumption.
(3) The tastes & preferences of the consumer should remain unchanged during the course of
consumption.
(4) The goods should be normal & should not be addicted in nature.
(5) Prices of related goods.
Eg:
(1) Consumption of coffee or tea
(2) Watching a movie
(3) Reading a book
32. QUANTITY TOTAL UTILITY MARGINAL UTILITY
1 20 ---
2 35 15
3 47 12
4 55 8
5 55 0
6 48 -7
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Eg: Consumption of No” of sweets
❖ Exceptions of this Law: Any violation of the factors like Taste, preference, price, time
interval, quality, quantity, etc violates this law.
➢ E.g: Consumption of water by a thirsty person increases his marginal utility for every
additional unit, if he is been given water in drop by drop to drink rather than with a jug of
water.
➢ E.g: A cricket batsman gets more marginal satisfaction when he obtains last runs when he is
near to his half-centaury or centaury.
❖ Note: (1) This law describes about consumption pattern of the consumer.
(2) It forms basis for many decisions related to production, pricing & investment.
33. 2. Law of Equi-Marginal Utility
The idea of equi-marginal principle was first mentioned by H.H.Gossen (1810-1858)
of Germany. Hence it is called Gossen's second Law.
The law of equi-marginal utility explains the behaviour of a consumer when he
consumers more than one commodity.
Wants are unlimited but the income which is available to the consumers to satisfy all
his wants is limited.
This law explains how the consumer spends his limited income on various
commodities to get maximum satisfaction.
• Every consumer allocates his income equally to all the product he requires for his
wants, so Equi-Marginal Utility states that, “The consumer will be in a state of
equilibrium, when he gets marginal utility from the products bought are equal”.
• (Marginal utility of product X/ Price of X) = (Marginal utility of product Y/ Price
of Y)
Symbolically
𝑀𝑈𝑥
𝑃𝑥
=
𝑀𝑈𝑦
𝑃𝑦
= 𝑀𝑈𝑚
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34. 2. Law of Equi-Marginal Utility
Marginal utility of money expenditure
Marginal utility of goods X and Y Px=Rs 5 and Py=Rs 4 then
Suppose the marginal utility of money is constant and it is 5 units then the total
expenditure will be Rs (5x6+5x4) = Rs 50/- on both commodities.
34
Units
Marginal Utility
obtained from x and y
𝑀𝑈𝑥 𝑀𝑈𝑦
1 50 36
2 45 32
3 40 28
4 35 24
5 30 20
6 25 16
7 20 12
8 15 8
Units 𝑀𝑈𝑥
𝑃𝑥
𝑀𝑈𝑦
𝑃𝒚
1 10 9
2 9 8
3 8 7
4 7 6
5 6 5
6 5 4
7 4 3
8 3 2
35. 2. Law of Equi-Marginal Utility
Limitations of the Law
The law of equi-marginal utility bristles with the following difficulties.
1. Indivisibility of Goods
The theory is weakened by the fact that many commodities like a car, a house
etc. are indivisible. In the case of indivisible goods, the law is not applicable.
2. The Marginal Utility of Money is Not Constant
The theory is based on the assumption that the marginal utility of money is
constant. But that is not really so.
3. The Measurement of Utility is not Possible
Marshall states that the price a consumer is willing to pay for a commodity is
equal to its marginal utility.
But modern economists argue that, if two persons are paying an equal price
for given commodity, it does not mean that both are getting the same level of
utility.
Thus utility is a subjective concept, which cannot be measured, in
quantitative terms. 35
36. 2. Law of Equi-Marginal Utility
Limitations of the Law
The law of equi-marginal utility bristles with the following difficulties.
4. Utilities are Interdependent
This law assumes that commodities are independent and therefore their
marginal utilities are also independent.
But in real life commodities are either substitutes or complements.
Their utilities are therefore interdependent.
5. Indefinite Budget Period
According to Prof. K.E. Boulding, indefinite budget period is another
difficulty in the law.
Normally the budget period is assumed to be a year. But there are certain
commodities which are available in several succeeding accounting periods.
It is difficult to calculate marginal utility for such commodities.
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37. 2. Law of Equi-Marginal Utility
Importance
According to Marshall, 'the applications of this principle extend over almost
every field of economic activity.’
1.It applies to consumption
Every rational human being wants to get maximum satisfaction with his
limited means. The consumer arranges his expenditure in such a way that,
𝑀𝑈𝑥
𝑃𝑥
=
𝑀𝑈𝑦
𝑃𝑦
=
𝑀𝑈𝑧
𝑃𝑧
=
𝑀𝑈𝑟
𝑃𝑟
so that he will get maximum satisfaction.
2. It applies to production
The aim of the producer is to get maximum output with least-cost, so that his
profit will be maximum.
3. Distribution of Earnings Between Savings and Consumption
According to Marshall, a prudent person will endeavor to distribute his
resources between his present needs and future needs in such a way that the
marginal utility of the last rupee put in savings is equal to the marginal utility
of the last rupee spent on consumption. 37
38. 2. Law of Equi-Marginal Utility
Importance
According to Marshall, 'the applications of this principle extend over almost
every field of economic activity.’
4. It applies to distribution
The general theory of distribution involves the principle of substitution. In
distribution, the rewards to the various factors of production, that is their
relative shares, are determined by the principle of equi-marginal utility.
5. It Applies to Public Finance
The revenue should be distributed in such a way that the last unit of
expenditure on various programmes brings equal welfare, so that social
welfare is maximised.
6. Expenditure of Time
A person should spend his limited time among alternative uses such as
reading; studying and gardening, in such a way that the marginal utility from
all these uses are equal.
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39. 3. Consumer Surplus:
• Consumer will be prepared to buy a product at its original price and gets
maximum marginal utility. If, he pays more or less to the actual price of
the product, then consumer marginal utility either goes down or up,
respectively.
▪ Consumer Surplus is a state of situation, where “the difference
between the price that consumer is prepared to pay and the price
that he is exactly paying”.
▪ In other words, “It is the value a consumer gets from a product
without paying for it”.
▪ The concept of consumer’s surplus is very significant for the
monopolist or the trader to assess where the consumer is prepared to
pay a higher price and at what point exactly he is paying a low
price.
▪ In such cases, the trader can marginally increases the price without
loosing the demand. 39
40. 4. The Indifference Curves:
It states that, “the indifference to a
particular combination of goods or
services, as every combination yields
him the same marginal utility.
The said curve is called as
“Indifference Curve”. Therefore, an
indifference curve is the locus of all
combinations of commodities from
which the consumer derives the same
level of satisfaction.
It is also called “Iso-Utility Curve”
or” Equal Satisfaction Curve”.
Indifference Curve is illustrated in
diagram, X axis represents apple and
Y axis represents orange. 40
41. 4. The Indifference Curves:
An Indifference Map
One can draw several indifference curves
each representing an indifference
schedule. Hence, an Indifference Map is a
family or collection or set of indifference
curves corresponding to different levels
of satisfaction. The Indifference Map is
illustrated in Diagram.
Marginal Rate of Substitution
The marginal rate of substitution of x for
y (MRSxy) is defined as the maximum
amount of y the consumer is willing to
give up for getting an additional unit of x
and still remaining on the same
indifference curve. 41
the indifference Curves
IC1,IC2 and IC3 represent
the Indifference Map,
Upper IC representing
higher level of
satisfaction compared to
lower IC
42. 4. The Indifference Curves:
• Assumptions:
➢ The consumer behaves rationally to maximise his
satisfaction.
➢ The prices and incomes of the consumer are defined
for analysis.
➢ The tastes & preferences of the consumer do not change during the analysis
Properties of Indifference Curves:
➢ It slopes downwards from left to right.
➢ It is convex to the origin. (marginal rate of substitution)
➢ No two indifference curves are not intersected to each other.
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43. 5. Consumer equilibrium:
➢ It is a situation in which “a
consumer has allocated his/her
income in the way that, given the
prices of goods and services,
maximizes his/her total utility”.
➢ In other words, “It is a situation
where consumer gets maximum
satisfaction with his limited
budget. This happens at a point
of income, where the budget line
is tangential to the indifference
curves.
Slope of budget line= (Income/Px)/
(Income/Py) = Py/Px
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The consumer reaches
equilibrium at the point where
the budget line is tangent on the
indifference curve.
T is the point of equilibrium as
budget line AB is tangent on
indifference curve
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