Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Unit 2- Circular Flow Models

Circular Flow Model: shows the flow of money, goods and services, and factors of production through the economy

Parts
Household: person or group of people who share an income.
     -Own the factors of production.

Firms: organization that produces goods and services for sale. They produce goods by taking inputs (factors of production) and turning them into outputs (finished products)

Government: provider of public goods and services. Demander of both public and private goods and services as well as factors of production.

Markets
Product market: where goods and services are bought and sold

Factor/resource market: where factors of production and resources are bought and sold

Circular Flow Model

2 comments:

  1. Will an individual that is self-employed in their own plumbing business be considered part of a household or a firm? Are there real situations where people can be considered both households and firms at the same instance, or does it have to be one or the other?

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