Jenny, your niece, is a smart high-school student who wants to make smart choices for her future.
Jenny, your niece, is a smart high-school student who wants to make smart choices for her future. Hearing of
your course in Business Economics, she has emailed
you asking for advice on whether to become a medical doctor and on the best location to practice it. She recognizes the high costs of tuition and the years of study involved
in becoming a doctor. She wants to evaluate if that career choice is anoptimum decision for her. So she has asked you for advice.Having read the introduction to Chapter 1 on page 3 of the textbook, you recognize the significance of such a career decision for Jenny. You decide to examine the career choice in terms of the utility it provides to Jenny: return on investment as well as personal satisfaction of contributing to the well-being of others. But to evaluate the utility, you also need to identify and quantify the total
opportunity costs of the decision. You decide to educate yourself about the market for physicians in terms of supply and demand, elasticity, costs of production, pricing, and normal profit. You want to provide Jenny with the most informed advice possible.
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