Question

Distinguish between the resource market and product market in the circular flow model. In what way are businesses and households both sellers and buyers in this model? What are the flows in the circular flow model?

The resource markets are where the owners of the resources (the households) sell their resources to the buyers of the resources (businesses). In the product markets, businesses sell the goods and services they have produced to the buyers of the goods and services, the households.

Households (individuals) either own all economic resources directly or own them indirectly through their ownership of business corporations. These households are willing to sell their resources to businesses because attractive prices draw them into specific resource markets. Businesses buy resources because they are necessary for producing goods and services. The interaction of the buyers and sellers establishes the price of each resource.

In the product market, businesses are the sellers and householders are the buyers; their role in the market has been reversed. Each group of economic units both buys and sells.

One flow is the flow of real goods and services (including resource services) and the other flow is the flow of money (money income, consumption expenditures, revenue, production costs).

Answer 1

Answer:

Resource Market : Sellers (households) sell factors of production to buyers (businesses), in return of factor incomes.  

Product Market : Sellers (businesses) sell goods & services to buyers (households), in return of price expenditure for goods & services.

Explanation:

Circular flow of Income is flow of payments & receipts for goods, services & factor services between sectors (firms & households) of economy.

Households sell factors of productions i.e land, labour, capital, entrepreneur to buyers businesses . They get factor incomes i.e rent, wages, interest, profit in return from them .

Businesses sell goods & services to buyers households. Households spend factor incomes earned from supplying production factors, in paying prices for those goods & services.

Product Market : Involves flow of factor services, final products & services - from households to firms, from firms to households respectively.

Money Market : Involves flow of monetary factor payments, prices expenditure- from firms to households, from households to firms respectively