Income and working hours across time and countries Scarcity and choice: key concepts Decision-making under scarcity Concluding remarks and summary Principles of Economics1 3. Scarcity, work, and choice Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti2 SCOR Department of Sociology and Social Research University of Milano-Bicocca A.Y. 2018-19 1These slides are based on the material made available under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND © 4.0 by the CORE Project , https://www.core-econ.org/. 2Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Via Bicocca degli Arcimboldi 8, 20126, Milan, E-mail:
[email protected] Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti Principles of Economics 1/26 Income and working hours across time and countries Scarcity and choice: key concepts Decision-making under scarcity Concluding remarks and summary Layout 1 Income and working hours across time and countries 2 Scarcity and choice: key concepts Production function, average productivity and marginal productivity Preferences and indifference curves Opportunity cost Feasible frontier 3 Decision-making under scarcity Constrained choices and optimal decision making Labor choice Income effect and substitution effect Effect of technological change on labor choices 4 Concluding remarks and summary Concluding remarks Summary Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti Principles of Economics 2/26 Income and working hours across time and countries Scarcity and choice: key concepts Decision-making under scarcity Concluding remarks and summary Income and free time across countries Figure: Annual hours of free time per worker and income (2013) Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti Principles of Economics 3/26 Income and working hours across time and countries Scarcity and choice: key concepts Decision-making under scarcity Concluding remarks and summary Income and working hours across time and countries Figure: Annual hours of work and income (18702000) Living standards have greatly increased since 1870.