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The word economy comes from the Greek word for "one who manages a household." At first, this origin might seem peculiar.But,in fact, households and economies have much in common.
A household faces many decisions.It must decide which members of the household do which tasks and what each member gets in return: who cooks dinner? Who does the laundry? Who gets the extra dessert at dinner? Who gets to choose what TV show to watch? In short,the household must allocate its scarce resources among its various members, taking into account each member's abilities, efforts, and desires.
Like a household, a society faces many decisions.A society must decide what jobs will be done and who will do them.It needs some people to grow food, other people to make clothing, and still others to design computer software.Once society has allocated people(as well as land, buildings, and machines) to various jobs, it must also allocate the outpu
t of goods and services that they produce.It must decide who will eat caviar and who will eat potatoes.It must decide who will drive a Ferrari and who will take the bus.The management of society's resources is important because resources are scarce.Scarcity means that society has limited resources and therefore cannot produce all the goods and serv
ices people wish to have.Just as a household cannot give every member everything he or she wants, a society cannot give every individual the highest standard of living to which he or she might aspire.
Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce resources.In most societies, resources are allocated not by a single central planner but through the combined actions of millions of households and firms.Economists therefore study how people make decisions: how much they work, what they buy, how much they save, and how they invest their savi
ngs.Economists also study how people interact with one another.For instance, they examine how the multitude of buyers and sellers of a good together determine the price at which the good is sold and the quantity that is sold.Finally, economists analyze forces and trends that affect the economy as a whole, including the growth in average income, the
