you are a member of the local government. you need to decide how best to send this years budget. The areas for debate are transportation health care, education and defence
how can you solve the problems that are cowsed by economic scarcity
what to use the available resources for? That is, what goods and services should be produced with the resources
how best to use those resources? in what combinations, using what techniques and what methods?
how best to distribute the goods and services produced with them? That is, who gets what, how much and on what basis?