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  • I would like to say thank you very much sir I am struggling in econ and you have helped me out a little bit with your video! Cheers~

  • I still dont get it :(

  • thankyou thankyou thankyou ! :D

  • Excellent. I can understand it better now. Thank you!

  • Exam tomorrow! thankyou, these really help!

  • i want my college economics teacher fired after seeing there videos.

  • Thanks very much! Great video. Helped in my revision ready for my exam in 5 days!

  • This is an excellent video. It helped me out a lot with my homework Well done

  • It's really nice to see that someone really knows how to teach....bravo...keep the good work. Greetings from Serbia.

  • thank you sir for your help, i've been trying to clear my 1st yr. micro eco and 2nd yr. macro eco since 2008. but lets hope, your tutorial will help me to clear this time ;)

  • Thanks sir!

  • Productivity is a result of Efficiency, and not energy efficiency like some are talking right now, but COMPLETE Efficiency...if you don't know the Baselines of your business how can you improve it?... if your Equipment isn't kept and operated properly how can you depend on it?...if your organization has no effective worker’s communication & training how can you get people to do the right things?...get it? Process, Equipment, Personnel, the core elements... get the Industrial Efficiency Triangle.

  • Omg this was so helpful! I didn't get it the whole lesson we did on it and when he mentioned it after! Thank you somuch!!

  • thumbs up you rock man ~ my lecturer recommended us to watch you teachings is was wonderful ~

  • @pajholden It was really fantastic explanation of opportunity cost, but one thing you mentioned wrong is when you were explaining about cheese and wool. The amount of wool that is given up for making a lot of cheese is not the the down part scale, but upper part scale is the amount you're giving up.

  • not bad 

  • Thank u very very much

    i have a microeconomics exam tommorow and i missed this concept

    man u r amazing easy ways to explain thnks :D

  • Thank you so very much for your amazing work! You have no idea how much you have helped us. You are a true hero!

  • These videos are helping me pass my college economics course! Thank you so much!

  • I could only lean on one example of OC but now I see that it also applies to production and manufacturing lines. It's like I had been living in a flat earth before this video.

  • I dont get it when he says the opportunity cost for OX is YZ. Because if we are doing OX amount of work we are also doing OY amount of play, hence the opportunity cost for OX 'and' OY is YZ. isn't it???

  • @mukerjeewise No. OC is "what's given up when a choice is made" You give up YZ-Play so that you can OX-Work.

  • PHIL HOLDEN, is the best teacher ive ever and never hadd !

    your AMAZING ! i was hating economics, but the minute i watch your videos, i fall back in loveeee !

  • It's 01:20 on the day of my Business Economics exam, and your online lectures are helping me make sense of my notes!! Thank-you. Do you have any of your stand-up on YouTube??

  • Thanks, this is a very clear video and a great example...

  • greatest ending to an economics video ever!

  • for the first time in my life I understand the true meaning of opportunity cost, its been like a fabble all these yrs.God bless you I like your teaching

  • for the first time in my life I understand the true meaning of opportunity cost, its been like a fabble all these yrs.God bless you I like your teaching

  • i wish he would be my professor.....he got clarity in voice and a wit to convience his ideas

  • Hi Phil,

    While revising for my exams last year I remember watching a video where you talk about deflation and it's relationship with monetary policy however now when I am revising for another batch of exams I can't seem to find it...do you know what video I'm referring to and if so could you let me know what it was...If not I need to lay of the crack.

    Cheers.

  • I think you should create an economics guide and publish! it would be a bestseller!

  • Million thanks from India

  • Wow, this guy has tact, he places himself in the students shoes and explains as he would like to be taught, he is a master teacher!!!

    p.s. Thank you for C L E A R lessons

  • Getting freshers through exams since 2008.

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  • awesome video and i have an assessment about that,,, can you give me some examples please.. thank you

  • he's a great teacher i guess. i want him to be my economy teacher :p he explain it clearly and now i understand about opportunity cost. thankyou very much, sir :D

  • Thank you very much for posting this,really helpful

  • why opportunity costs should be included in capital budgeting analysis?

  • THIS MAN IS SO GOOD, INFACT I UNDERSTAND HIS PATTERN OF EXPLAINING HIS SUBJECT BETTER THAN MY LECTURE IN THE UNIVERSITY.

    YOU SHOULD PLS COME BACK TO THE UK. YOU ARE REALLY TALENTED IN TEACHING. YOU ARE REALLY MAKING A DIFFERENT IN OUR STUDIES. PLS KEEP IT UP, AND MORE OF YOUR LECTURE, AND LOOKING FORWARD FOR YOUR WORKSHOP INTHE UK. TOSNEL............

  • @Tosnel Hi - thank you for your kind comments. I used to work in the UK. I was a stand-up comedian for a year, then got into teaching. I taught in a tiny language school in a mountain town in Arcadia, Greece for a year, fell in love with teaching and Greece, came back to the UK and taught History for three years in state schools in Dagenham and Morecambe. But Greece was in my blood by then, and kept calling me back, so I moved to Athens permanently in 1996.

  • @pajholden That's an ace story!

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  • @Tosnel how do you not understand this 

  • This video describes Opportunity Cost better than my text book! Thanks!

  • Very interesting, I believe I can answer my DQ question now. Thanks.

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  • thank you i have a final on friday and watching this explained a lot

  • I sacrificed a lot of play for this video and I don't regret it at all. Thank you paj!

  • I have an Exam tomorrow and helped me do much

  • thank a lot, after this i eventually understand that!!

  • Awesome

  • Thats really very helpful'

    Thank you so much

    Can I get help from your videos in complex calculations of Economics?

    Optimal price and the likes.

    I mean I get the concept right and can do simple problems but the in complex problems, I'm always seeking the senior's help. can you help in this regard?

  • i thought thinking in the margin is when you decide to work wih a convenation of both but i guess it makes sence.

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  • Why does the opporunity cost curve make a concave, but the indifference curve makes a convex? It seems like almost the same to me.

  • I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS.

  • thumbs up if you're from mr. dunavins class.

  • That's was impressive. Thanks for explaining it in such a very simple way.

  • Thank you!!!!

  • THANK YOU SIR! You should be my teacher!!! I am doing Economics for the first time in A levels and my teacher has already made it clear tha she will only teach us the basics and we will have to get into the depths ourselves :| I am quite bad at anwering questions or exam type case studies. Will you be able to make a video on writing modal answers? Thank you. :)

  • Thank you :]

  • this guy is good. thanks for the videos.

  • thanx mate!

  • it helps alot !

    wish u were my lecturer ;)

  • cheers sir

    really helped for my final

    i guess the opportunity cost of me watching tv all day instead of studying is my grades

    haha oh well

  • VERY INTERESTING

  • Very helpful. Thanks! 

  • thanks so much sir

  • From 2:28 - you change the linear line into a concave. This is wrong. In reality it depends on what activities you do. The idea of concave curve came from Macro Economics based on the unskilled labour to move quicly.

    Take for instance cooking. To prepare one dish in a bigger quantity is much more productive than 2 kinds of dishes, so in that case the curve is convex, not even linear. You need to be much more knowledgeable on the activities you are actually drawing a concave curve on.

  • @csurmi22 A convex PPF? Thats the 1st time i have heard bout it.....If possible will you make a vid bout it? I really suck at econs but i am willing to learn more.....So can you?

  • I miss u Mr Holden :)

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  • Thanks........................­.....  Good job

  • i failed my final cuz of this

  • @hohohee1 Because of his teaching or the topic? I'm a bit confused.....

  • In reality wouldn't the curve be convex rather than concave?

    The first unit of cheese would be very expensive to produce due to start up costs so you'd be giving a lot wool to produce a small amount of cheese. The last unit would be very cheap so you wouldn't have to give up much.

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  • Thanks for video~!

  • great stuff...brilliant...:)

  • thnx great stuff

  • Great video, but one question. Why is the line sometimes curved and not always straight? What causes this? Is there a way to evaluate the dimension of this curve? It seems that one must know how much this curve is... curved, to make a good decision with opportunity cost.

  • Because there are fixed/variable costs one must pay off in order to start producing something. The work/play graph doesn't have to consider any extra fixed/variable costs.

  • THANK YOU!

  • thanks sooo much!!!

  • Utterly Perfect =)

  • Great explanation. Thank you!

  • he draws lines very well

  • yesss your videos are very helpful!

  • thank youu my teacher is so shit

  • good stuff m8

  • thank you very much! the pictures with examples really helped.

  • thanks a lot sir

  • all this stuff you do helps so many people!!

  • THANK YOU ;D

  • Excellent. This really helped.

  • Thank you for your video!! It helped me understand more than what I have learned in the semester, so far!!

    -R

  • thanks good job

  • This is extremely good session. Please keep spreading your teaching through youtube. This has lot of value. Thanks.

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  • thank you!

  • Thanks a lot for the video! This was really helpful =D

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  • This is soooo easy! Great Videos

  • THX a lot~~

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  • omg. SOOOOO GOOD!! thank you!!

  • @supercuulable thanks to you and fet system. I do not think we will have to got to school anymore

  • humm now i think i am starting to like economics, u make this very interesting and make me want to learn more, thanks alot, ur very good.!

  • That was really helpful. Thanks a lot.

  • i wish you could have done it with actual numbers in a ppc schedule but great explanation

  • thank you very much for this you explained it much better than my professor did!

  • the exit is always cliassic lol!

  • great! no seriously like i just learned what oppotunity course is from this.!!

  • You clearly haven't learnt what oppurtunity cost is as you've called it oppurtunity course!

  • omg did i ? i was thinking of my course that moment heheeeeei

    but yea you're right, i had a question in the exam and i got a zero. its not my thing

  • IB 2010!!!!!!!

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  • you are clearly very ignorant, how do you think everything is priced? by magic? if so you need to be in a mental home

  • what about the subjective theory of value; does a government, a firm, or any other group of individuals make a decision in the same way as a single individual. how do we add up individual opportunity costs?

  • Very helpful! I have been watching all of your videos, im studying economics in year 11 in Australia.

    Thanks

  • helpful

  • Very good, but you didn't explain the reason why more wool must be forgone as more cheese is produced.

  • Good stuff. Thanks!

  • wow this is funny im doing my last year of A levels and i didnt even think to look for help on youtube. I will start checking out a level help on youtube for my last exam :d

  • One error you made

    At 4:11 to 4:13 you said we have to give up a HUGE amount of wool. It is supposed to be the length on top not on the bottom.

    Nevertheless that was a good refresh of mind for me as I am an Economics student. Thumbs UP!

  • He is not wrong. He means that you move to the 1000th unit from the 999th unit.

  • Hey pergolas123 Thanks for pointing out my mistake! It is from the 999th unit to the 100th unit of cheese you have to give a large amount of wool. It got me all confused back then.

    So can I say that the opportunity cost of producing 999 units of cheese from 0 WOULD BE the large length on top?

    Sorry pajholden =)

  • Yup :)

  • thx heaps i have an exam on oppitunity cost in a couple of days

  • Thank you so much.

    I'm currently in an econ class for the first time and I really want to understand what I'm doing. I hope you post more of these videos for other concepts such as "The Short Run vs The Long Run" and "Market Types"

  • this was extremely helpful thank you

  • In the video, shudn't the opportunity cost be the upper part of the Y-axis instead of the lower part of Y-axis is marked by the tutor here?

  • that's what i was thinking...

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  • check out my video for a humanistic perspective, as well

  • Thanks! I will have the economics exam tomorrow, it's helpful to me

  • I wish we had these helpful youtube videos in college!

  • Richard Cantillion had this explicit idea as "intrinsic value" as early as 1732!

  • lol, who entered the room? did you guys hijack a class room? : )... Great Video Thanks

  • lets say there is a partnership of two people, A&B. both are 50% partners in the business. For some reason the partner A wants to take over the business and remove partner B from the same. He is willing to give partner B his due share of the partnership value. But partner B feels that he is entitled to some opportunity cost in this case, as he is not leaving this partnership willingly. What is the basis on which B should claim opportunity cost from A? is there any set formula for such a case?

  • thanks alot for explaying that, very clear!

  • You won a free ticket to see an Eric Clapton concert (which has no resale value). Bob Dylan is performing on the same night and is your next-best alternative activity. Tickets to see Dylan cost $40. On any given day, you would be willing to pay up to $50 to see Dylan. Assume there are no other costs of seeing either performer.

    Based on this information, the opportunity cost of seeing Eric Clapton would be $0?

  • 4th grade??? My daughter Emily, 8 years old, is fourth grade. They definitely don't study economics yet! What school does your son go to? The J.M.Keynes Prep school for infant prodigies? Glad it helped. Next year, when he does triple-axis dynamic efficiency path-modelling in three stakeholder employment contract negotiations, ask him to call me so he can explain it to me! Thanks for watching.

  • @pajholden 4TH grade here is prolly 12th grade where you're at ;) Because indeed.8 y/o is prodigy²

  • @pajholden think he means 4th year of secondary school.. ie, year 10.

  • Thank you for this video! It helped me with my son's 4th grade homework! I sure don't remember learning this in 4th grade! AHHHH!!! Thank you, you saved the day!

  • opportunity cost- is the cost of the next best alternative to be foregone.

    Ive got perfect Business notes for IGCSE. Ive got a B in GCSE and an A in A levels.

  • you are totally fantastic! my perfect online tutor. thanks! =]

  • you explained this better in 5 minutes than my instructor was able to do in 6 weeks... and 90% of the class still doesn't get it. Opportunity Cost is the item not chosen or sacrificed. Please post more on Microeconomics.

  • very well explain

  • are there any serious theories as to why (or when at times) people dont pick the best opportunity cost? [admittedly not everyone makes the best choices when faced with them]

  • People always pick the "best" oportunity cost. But you can not judge if these are the best. That is caused by the utility and the utility of a decission is a personal aspect of the individual

  • regarding to my previous comment: This behavior implies the idea of the homo oeconomicus

  • nicely xpalined :p

    it helpd me in understanding 4 ma alevel's finals

  • Very helpful! The examples you used really helped me grasp the concept.

  • I disagree. I have chronic ADD and I have no difficulty listening to this guy

  • are you joking?!