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Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia, "management of a household, administration") from οἶκος (oikos, "house") + νόμος (nomos, "custom" or "law"), hence "rules of the house(hold)".
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Economics the social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and with the theory and management of economies or economic systems.
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Economics the study of how the forces of supply and demand allocate scarce resources. Subdivided into microeconomics, which examines the behavior of firms, consumers and the role of government;and macroeconomics, which looks at inflation, unemployment, industrial production, and the role of government.
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Allocative efficiency is a situation in which the limited resources of a firm are allocated in accordance with the wishes of consumers. An allocatively efficient economy produces an "optimal mix" of commodities. A firm is allocatively efficient when its price is equal to its marginal costs (that is, P = MC) in a perfect market.
Also called as Efficient distribution of resources: an economic situation where no possible reorganization of production resources can make some consumers better off without making other consumers worse off. A market will be allocatively efficient if it is producing the right goods for the right people at the right price. An allocatively efficient market is therefore one which has no imperfections. The demand curve is equal to the marginal utility curve i.e. the (private) benefit of the additional unit, while the supply curve is equal to the marginal cost curve i.e. the (private) cost of the additional unit. In a perfect market, there are no externalities, meaning that the demand curve is also equal to the social benefit of the additional unit, while the supply curve is equal to the social cost of the additional unit. Therefore, the market equilibrium, where demand meets supply, is also where marginal social benefit meets marginal social costs. At this point, net social benefit is maximized, meaning this is the allocatively efficient outcome. However, it is possible to have Pareto efficiency without allocative efficiency. By shifting resources in the economy, a gain in benefit to one individual could be greater than the loss in benefit to another individual (see Kaldor-Hicks efficiency). Therefore, before such a shift, the market is not allocatively efficient, but might be Pareto efficient. When a market fails to achieve allocative efficiency and resources are not allocated efficiently, there is said to be market failure. Market failure may occur with imperfect knowledge, differentiated goods, resource immobility, concentrated market power, insufficient production, externalities, or inequality of consumers' and producers' bargaining powers.
For Examples and better understanding, please visit these websited;
http://www.agprodecon.org/images/MarginalCows/MC1/TheMarginalCow-I-V2.pdf
http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/44394/dp591.pdf
And very good book to read for Effcieincy Measurement in Health & Health Care
http://books.google.com.pk/books?id=8bIijb9mynkC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Allocative+Efficiency&source=web&ots=krK9X3vvjO&sig=1_Cjg0QH1LOD8XRZWnWcn6tOWck&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA8,M1
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics
Economics the social science that deals with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services and with the theory and management of economies or economic systems.
http://www.answers.com/topic/economics
Economics the study of how the forces of supply and demand allocate scarce resources. Subdivided into microeconomics, which examines the behavior of firms, consumers and the role of government;and macroeconomics, which looks at inflation, unemployment, industrial production, and the role of government.
Source:http://www.investorwords.com/1648/economics.html
Allocative efficiency is a situation in which the limited resources of a firm are allocated in accordance with the wishes of consumers. An allocatively efficient economy produces an "optimal mix" of commodities. A firm is allocatively efficient when its price is equal to its marginal costs (that is, P = MC) in a perfect market.
Also called as Efficient distribution of resources: an economic situation where no possible reorganization of production resources can make some consumers better off without making other consumers worse off. A market will be allocatively efficient if it is producing the right goods for the right people at the right price. An allocatively efficient market is therefore one which has no imperfections. The demand curve is equal to the marginal utility curve i.e. the (private) benefit of the additional unit, while the supply curve is equal to the marginal cost curve i.e. the (private) cost of the additional unit. In a perfect market, there are no externalities, meaning that the demand curve is also equal to the social benefit of the additional unit, while the supply curve is equal to the social cost of the additional unit. Therefore, the market equilibrium, where demand meets supply, is also where marginal social benefit meets marginal social costs. At this point, net social benefit is maximized, meaning this is the allocatively efficient outcome. However, it is possible to have Pareto efficiency without allocative efficiency. By shifting resources in the economy, a gain in benefit to one individual could be greater than the loss in benefit to another individual (see Kaldor-Hicks efficiency). Therefore, before such a shift, the market is not allocatively efficient, but might be Pareto efficient. When a market fails to achieve allocative efficiency and resources are not allocated efficiently, there is said to be market failure. Market failure may occur with imperfect knowledge, differentiated goods, resource immobility, concentrated market power, insufficient production, externalities, or inequality of consumers' and producers' bargaining powers.
For Examples and better understanding, please visit these websited;
http://www.agprodecon.org/images/MarginalCows/MC1/TheMarginalCow-I-V2.pdf
http://www.diw.de/documents/publikationen/73/44394/dp591.pdf
And very good book to read for Effcieincy Measurement in Health & Health Care
http://books.google.com.pk/books?id=8bIijb9mynkC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Allocative+Efficiency&source=web&ots=krK9X3vvjO&sig=1_Cjg0QH1LOD8XRZWnWcn6tOWck&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result#PPA8,M1
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