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Economics 114
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CHAPTER ONE •




> THE CAPITALIST REVOLUTION
.




Measuring Living standards
-
-





Gross Domestic Product ( GDP ) : an
economy 's size


the value
goods produced in country
-




market of all a




total income earned within a
-




country



living

GDP per capita measures standards
average :



G- DP


income population
-



per person or



-




Measuring Economic Growth
-




Change in GDP


Growth Rate =
original level in GDP



'
• '



hockey
-
stick curves represent the sustained rapid growth in GDP per capita experienced by countries worldwide .




↳ sustained in standards close to 7
no
growth living for country

-




timing of sustained growth


occurred @ diff .
pts in time .




measuring living standards

( GDP per capita ) = measure


total goods / services
Inequality
-



and Growth produced
-




in a country → G- DP which =




sustained began @ diff
"
occurred diff
by countries
Whn growth it . times in .
Places .
divided pop
measures market value of in / out

Timing Growth puts in given period
-



of -





Growth take -


off occurred @ diff .
points in time for diff countries

-


Brittan = 1ˢᵗ country to experience sustained economic growth [ it began around 1650 ]



Japan
-


In it occurred around 1870
,




-



The kink for China + India happened in the 2nd half of the 20th century .




00

In some economies substantial improvements in people 's living standards ≠ until gained independence frm
→ occur they


colonial rule / interference by European nations .




THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
CAPITALISM :
the permanent technological revolution


> a TECHNOLOGY is a process tht uses a set of inputs including materials
machinery and labour to produce an
output .
, , ,




> TECHNOLOGICAL process means to labour = needed to produce the same output .




> for millennia technological process was v. Slow .




>
since REVOLUTION we've
the INDUSTRIAL witnessed a
permanent technological revolution .

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CHAPTER ONE •




> DIS POSSIBLE INCOME




G- DP per capita ≠ disposible

measures are . income but income



↳ amt . of wages / salaries / profit / rent / interest t transfer payments frm organisations

DISPOSIBLE good food / / goods services
INCOME living standards
housing Clothing / other

=
measure of Max .
9Mt . Of t




income


=
major influence on well
being
-




> the starting point :
National GDP



estimating given
-

Whn the market value output for a period



by multiplying quantities of vast array of diff .
goods / services by prices .




NOMINAL GDP is written as :




( price of yoga lesson ) -
( number of yoga lessons )


t
( price of book ) ( of books )
t
-


a number . . .




+
( price ) -

( quantity ) for all
goods + services



IN GENERAL WE WRITE THT :
,




nominal GDP = É
Pichi
i



where p; is the price of good i
, qi is the quantity of i and É indicates the sum of price times quantity for all the goods / services tht we count



Real GDP
taking account of price changes time :
over




>
HISTORY 'S HOCKEY STICK GROWTH IN INCOME
:




whether want to levels rates
• we compare or
growth
" "

the stick makes it easy compare the level of GDP per capita countries
hockey to across


°

a ratio scale makes it possible to
compare growth rates across countries t diff .
periods


ratio scale
grows @
=
used : a series tht a constant rate looks like a Str line


the i. [ or proportional growth rate ] = constant



ratio


A in scale
line chart faster rate
=
steeper




> THE PERMANENT TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION


>
NB new technology introduced in textiles transportation
energy
= +
,




&
Cumulative character led INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

being called the



↳ the ideas , discoveries
new era =
brought new
,
methods and machines



'
making old ideas = obsolete


"
"
>

machinery
=
technology refers to
,
equipment and devices developed using scientific knowledge .




TECHNOLOGY [ including
-

=
a process tht takes a set of materials t other inputs wrk Of people t
machinery ]


"
'
> TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS revolutionized production time pair of shoes 12 in
as
by
=

required to make a fell a
few decades



s marked beginning a
permanent TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION → be the amt of time =
required for production =
fell over generations .




>
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN LIGHTING




we measure technological process in
lighting by how
many units of brightness called lumens →
generated by an hr of work



>
in m2
1 lumen =
approx . the amt of brightness a of
moonlight .








process of innovation end / INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
≠ as labour in
lighting
→ shows
w case of


'
it =
continued wl application of new tech [ ie .
steam
engine electricity , transport +
recently the revolution in info
,




processing t communication


broadly applicable tech innovations =
particularly strong impetus to
growth in
living stnds



bc they change the tht the
way large parts of econ .
wrks .







reducing 9Mt . of wrk time needed for production →
tech changes allows significant in living Std .

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CHAPTER ONE •




> THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT



long physical economic changes [ ie Climate change / global warming ] appropriate policies governments could adopt

term tht
t
consequences of these t
-
.






frm global climate change → local resource exhaustion :
the effects = results of both the expansion of the
economy t the way the economy
=
Organized

>
relationship btwn the economy + environ men = 2 ways :




>
we natural resources in production affect environment in its to
use which may the we live +
capasity support


future production


The PERMANENT TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION


I
brought about dependence on fossil fuels may part of solution to
today 's environ problems
-
=
.
.




physical environment
biosphere

society




economy




v



the
economy
=
part of society which =
part of biosphere
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