Businesses and the Costs of Production
Here are the instructions:
- Review the narrated lecture on Business and the Cost of Production http://lectures.mhhe.com/narrated_slides/0078021758/chapter09/presentation_html5.html
- Review the concept of Economic Profit in the textbook (picture of the section attached)
- Review the Khan Videos
http://www.khanacademy.org/finance-economics/microeconomics/v/fixed–variable–and-marginal-cost
http://www.khanacademy.org/finance-economics/microeconomics/v/marginal-cost-and-average-total-cost
ASSIGNMENT
1. Explain why economic costs include both explicit costs and implicit costs.
2. Explain the concept of opportunity cost as related to the doctor in the Khan Academy video who gave up his profession to open a business.
3. What other factors do you think the doctor may have considered when he decided to leave his profession to open a business?
Do not forget reference page with credible resources
Answer Preview
- Explain why economic costs include both explicit costs and implicit costs.
Economic costs are measured in terms of explicit and implicit costs because in both situations there is a measure of an opportunity foregone in the decision made to incur that costs. Explicit costs are measured as economic costs because the money used to meet these expenses such as labor…
400 words