The document describes three basic models of the economy:
1) The circular flow model shows how households and firms interact in the goods/services and factor markets.
2) The business cycle model looks at how the economy fluctuates over time between periods of growth, peak, recession, and recovery.
3) The production possibilities curve illustrates the tradeoffs between producing different amounts of two goods given limited resources, with points on the curve being efficient and outside being impossible.
2. FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
1.) Circular Flow Model
2.) Business Cycle Model
3. Households
Firms
G & S
markets
Demand stuff
Supply stuff
pay
money
earn
income
F & P
markets
Demand stuff
Supply stuff
earn
income
pay
money
Government
transferstaxes
taxessubsidies
Demand
stuff
Demand
stuff
4.
5.
6. 1.) Circular Flow. - a basic way of
understanding how different
parts of the economic
system fit together.
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
7. 1.) Circular Flow.
- Consumers in the Economy- Households
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
11. 1.) Circular Flow.
- Households
- Firms
- Where consumers go to buy
things from producers.
- Good and
services
Market
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
14. 1.) Circular Flow.
- Households
- Firms
- Good and
services
Market
- Where producers come to
buy things from consumers.
- Factors of
Production
Market
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
18. 1.) Circular Flow.
- Households
- Firms
- Good and
services
Market
- Factors of
Production
Market
- Collects taxes, buys public
goods and gives out
transfers.
- Government
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
21. Households
Firms
G & S
markets
Demand stuff
Supply stuff
pay
money
earn
income
F & P
markets
Demand stuff
Supply stuff
earn
income
pay
money
Government
transferstaxes
taxessubsidies
Demand
stuff
Demand
stuff
22. FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
1.) Circular Flow Model
2.) Business Cycle Model
23. 2.) Business Cycle - Looking at how the economy
grows over time.
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
24. - Looking at things today. Now
they are in the current time.
Short Run Growth
2.) Business Cycle
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
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26. 2.) Business Cycle
- Looking at trend 趋向
over long periods of time.
- Long Run Growth trend
- Short Run Growth
- Averaging out the short
run.
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
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28. or - high levels of consumer
spending, business confidence,
profits and investment.
Boom
2.) Business Cycle
-Expansion
- Some times called recovery
as well is coming out of a
recession
- returning consumer
spending and business
confidence.
- Recovery
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
29. Time
Short Run
Econ
Growth
Boomor
- high levels of consumer spending,
business confidence, profits and investment.
Expansion
- Some times called recovery as
well is coming out of a recession
2.) Business Cycle Model
30. -Peak
or
- height of the business cycle.
Boom
2.) Business Cycle
-Expansion
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
32. -Peak
or Boom
2.) Business Cycle
-Expansion
- Recession Slumpor - falling levels of consumer
spending and confidence
mean lower profits for
businesses – which start to cut
back on investment.
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
37. FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
1.) Circular Flow Model
2.) Business Cycle Model
38. 3.) Production
Possibilities Curve
(PPC)
Production
Possibilities Frontier
(PPF)
Also called:
- a graph that shows the
combinations of
two goods the economy can
possibly produce given the
available resources and the
available technology.
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
39. 1.) Full employment: all resources are used
2.) Productive efficiency: goods are being
produced in the least costly way
4.) Fixed 不变 amount of resources
5.) Fixed 不变 amount of technology
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
Assumptions 假定:
40. 0
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Axis Title
The PPC could be a
straight line, or bow-
shaped.
Depends on what
happens to
opportunity cost
as economy shifts
resources from one
industry
to the other.
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
枪炮
黄油
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Axis Title
Consumption
goods
Capital
goods
A
B
C
Any point that is
OUTSIDE the PPC is
Impossible!
Impossible!
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
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Consumption
goods
Capital
goods
A
B
C
D
Any point that is
WITHIN the PPC is
Inefficient.
It means the resources
are not completely
being used.
Inefficient
All
Area!
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
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Axis Title
Consumption
goods
Capital
goods
A
B
C
D
Any point that is ON
the PPC is Efficient.
It means the
resources being
completely used.
Efficient
All are
Points!
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
44. 0
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3,000
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5,000
6,000
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AxisTitle
Axis Title
Consumption
goods
Capital
goods
Economic Growth
- Sustained expansion of
the production
possibilities frontier
- to have economic
growth means to
increase the PPF so
more can be produced
without having to
trade-off for as much.
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
45. 0
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2,000
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5,000
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AxisTitle
Axis Title
Consumption
goods
Capital
goods
A
Allocative Efficiency
+
Economic Growth
By producing more Capital
goods today, that means
you can have more
Capital goods and
Consumption goods in
the future.
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
47. 1.) Circular Flow. - a basic way of
understanding how different
parts of the economic
system fit together.
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
48. Households
Firms
G & S
markets
Demand stuff
Supply stuff
pay
money
earn
income
F & P
markets
Demand stuff
Supply stuff
earn
income
pay
money
Government
transferstaxes
taxessubsidies
Demand
stuff
Demand
stuff
49. 2.) Business Cycle - Looking at how the economy
grows over time.
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
51. 3.) Production
Possibilities Curve
(PPC)
Production
Possibilities Frontier
(PPF)
Also called:
- a graph that shows the
combinations of
two goods the economy can
possibly produce given the
available resources and the
available technology.
FIRST BASIC MODELS OF THE ECONOMY
52. 0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
AxisTitle
Axis Title
The PPC could be a
straight line, or bow-
shaped.
Depends on what
happens to
opportunity cost
as economy shifts
resources from one
industry
to the other.
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
枪炮
黄油
53. 0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
AxisTitle
Axis Title
Consumption
goods
Capital
goods
A
B
C
D
Any point that is ON
the PPC is Efficient.
It means the
resources being
completely used.
Efficient
All are
Points!
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
54. 0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
AxisTitle
Axis Title
Consumption
goods
Capital
goods
A
B
C
D
Any point that is
WITHIN the PPC is
Inefficient.
It means the resources
are not completely
being used.
Inefficient
All
Area!
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
55. 0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
AxisTitle
Axis Title
Consumption
goods
Capital
goods
A
B
C
Any point that is
OUTSIDE the PPC is
Impossible!
Impossible!
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
56. 0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
AxisTitle
Axis Title
Consumption
goods
Capital
goods
Economic Growth
- Sustained expansion of
the production
possibilities frontier
- to have economic
growth means to
increase the PPF so
more can be produced
without having to
trade-off for as much.
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
57. 0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
AxisTitle
Axis Title
Consumption
goods
Capital
goods
A
Allocative Efficiency
+
Economic Growth
By producing more Capital
goods today, that means
you can have more
Capital goods and
Consumption goods in
the future.
3.) Production Possibilities Curve
58. The End.
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