Friday 2 October 2009

Economics homework


What have the two pictures got to do with Economics?

7 comments:

tuan's blog said...

comment???

Nowakonomics said...

Scarcity, opportunity cost, ovrcrowding.

Population control (China)

Economics of happiness. (Smiling faces)

Empty spaces: misallocation of resources.

Mr.Lex said...

Allocative inefficiency

chris sivewright said...

Also w.o.s.

Mr.Lex said...

That's it...W.O.S:))

Tom said...

For the first picture:

Reduced negative externalities. As the car parking spots are empty, the teachers will have to use other methods of transportation to get to school. For instance; bicycle or bus! These are all less polluting than a car! Which would cause a decrease in negative externalities.

Anonymous said...

It might be private and public good or Allocative inefficiency