How People Make Economic Decisions

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How People Make Economic Decisions University Of Phoenix ECO212/ Principles of Economics February 8, 2012 How People Make Economic Decisions People can make economic decisions if and when they follow four decision making principles. Groups of people can interact with each other as they set out their lives. The four decision making principles are: people respond to incentive, people facing tradeoffs, and the price of something is what you provide up for it and balanced people believe in the bottom line. People act in responses to incentive when some behavior changes the cost and change the benefits. Because now a day’s people make decisions on how much it cost and not the incentives it would have in their life. Cost is very important now because of the economy and it’s not just pleasure any more. People facing tradeoffs are more common in today’s decision making principles because of their goals. People make their decisions depending on their goals and also the costs. An example of this is like buying name brand verses buying genetic brands at the super market. Buying clothes at Express verses buying it at Wal-Mart, its clothes but the quality of the clothes is different. The cost of something is what you pay for it after the company making it add it profit. The decision on paying for it requires on the need and the benefits of the product ones buying. The last decision making principle is the rational people. These people over think things and try to rationalize everything they buy. They also know that lifelong decisions are hardly ever black and white, but also some shades of gray. So if you think about some of the most common things the people buy like airlines ticket. The airlines company may post them online cheaper if people buy them in advance and raise the prices when it gets closer to the

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