Pure public goods
The market mechanism is likely to fail to supply pure public goods…
Missing markets
A significant market failure is the failure to produce some goods and…
The nature of economics
Economics is the scientific study of the ownership, use, and exchange of scarce…
Index numbers
Economists frequently use index numbers when making comparisons over time. An index…
Marginal analysis
Economic decisions are taken in a marginal way, which means that decisions to produce,…
Increasing opportunity cost
Opportunity cost can be thought of in terms of how decisions to…
Interpreting PPFs
Firstly, we can describe the opportunity cost to Mythica of producing a given output of computers…
Production possibility frontiers
An opportunity cost will usually arise whenever an economic agent chooses between…
Samuelson’s three questions
America’s first Nobel Prize winner for economics, the late Paul Samuelson, is often…


