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The three questions that have to be answered when trying to measure the efficiency of an economy are ‘what?’, ‘how?’, and ‘for whom?’. The first question relates to the production of goods. We have scarce resources so to achieve maximum efficiency we must make sure those resources are being used to make things that people want. Otherwise, precious resources are being mis-allocated. The second factor of efficiency is the competence of the production method itself. Is output being maximised? The third question is ‘for whom?’. This relates to financial inequalities which exist in our society. If everyone earned the same, then output could not be maximised because there would be no incentives to work hard.
I will be discussing the first two factors above. The first question links with allocative efficiency
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In the diagram above, both points are productively efficient because the resources are being used to make the maximum quantity of fruit and vegetables. However, only point A is allocatively efficient because it is the ratio of fruit to vegetables that the population wants. Point A could also be called economically efficient because it fulfils both of the factors. Point be can never be economically efficient because it only fulfils one factor.
Productive efficiency is where a firm is using all resources to produce goods at the lowest possible cost. To put it another way, if a firm is producing on the lowest point of the average cost curve, it is productively efficient. q* is the level of output associated with productive efficiency.
The market price of this good is £10, so, in other words, people va
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