Summary: Food Safety Economics

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  • Lecture 1a Microeconomics

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  • What are opportunity cost (value)?

    The benefit you sacrifice when you choose one option over another
  • What are 'scare' resources?

    A resource is any physical or virtual entity of limited availability or anything used to help one earn a living.
    • Natural resources 
    • Human resources
    • Renewable vs Non-renewable resource  
  • What is the term for that everything a equations remains contestant

    'ceteris Paribus
  • What is the law of supply?

    Producers (firms) supply more units of a product when its price is high and fewer units when the market price is low
  • What are substitute goods: Es > 0

    • The cross-price elasticity of demand 
      • price of an alternative good 
    • Locally produced milk vs imported milk 
    • milk vs orange juice
    • cheeseburger vs taco 
  • What are complement goods: Es < 0

    • The cross-price elasticity of demand 
    • Cheese and hamburgers
    • Peanut butter and jelly
    • Mozzarella cheese and pizza dough 
  • What are inferior goods: Ei < 0

    • Income elasticity of demand 
    • Fast food
    • Fluid milk
    • Margarine 
  • What are normal goods: Ei > 0

    • Income elasticity of demand 
    • Full-service restaurants 
    • Prepared meals
    • Recreational activities 
  • What is the meaning of 'Demand relatively elastic'?

    A change in supply gives a small effect on the price 
    • Consumer have many choices and substitution is very easy  
  • Lecture 1b Accounting

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  • Cost and relationship with time

    Cost are for a period ( eg. Year)

    Expenditures is not Cost 

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