Yes, when you choose to do one activity over another your forego the benefits of the other option. This is considered opportunity costs.
secondary effect
choice is giving preference to your needs.
Yes, Economics is the study of scarcity and choice.
That description fails to account for the fact that so much human activity under capitalism is matter of being forced to do something, not a matter of choice. For instance, the majority of people are forced to sell their ability to work for a wage. And scarcity is an artificial situation caused by capitalism’s rule of no profit- no production.
Because most people don’t realise that most economic ‘choices’ are really forced on people, who have little real choice in deciding what to do.
secondary effect
secondary effect
Opportunity cost is the choice to do something but choosing that requires you not to something else.
choice is giving preference to your needs.
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Yes, Economics is the study of scarcity and choice.
That description fails to account for the fact that so much human activity under capitalism is matter of being forced to do something, not a matter of choice. For instance, the majority of people are forced to sell their ability to work for a wage. And scarcity is an artificial situation caused by capitalism’s rule of no profit- no production.
economising is the process of choice in business economics
Because most people don’t realise that most economic ‘choices’ are really forced on people, who have little real choice in deciding what to do.
Scarcity and Choice
Opportunity cost applies to the statement the choice to do something is the choice not to do something else.
Opportunity cost applies to the statement the choice to do something is the choice not to do something else.