COURSE: BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (BCOM) UNIT: INTRODUCTION TO MACRO-ECONOMICS QUESTION: MICRO-ECONOMICS AND MACRO-ECONOMICS INTRODUCTION Economics is the foundation of all commercial activity and comprises two areas: microeconomics and macroeconomics. Macroeconomics is concerned with the big picture‚ for example‚ the national economy and gross domestic product. By contrast‚ microeconomics is concerned with the small picture and focuses on theories of supply and demand. Microeconomics is
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19th Century Theories 1. Continental thought in the early 19th Century was shaped by a philosophy that rejected material things in favor of a search for inner truth. This philosophy was (a) Cartesian rationalism. (b) classical economics. (c) Marxian economics. (d) social rationalism. (e) dialectical materialism. 2. A school of thought influenced by Auguste Comte’s determinism‚ and which contended that Ricardians “confined the observations on which they based their reasoning to the small
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BEC 1034 MICROECONOMICS TUTORIAL 1 (Chapter 1: Ten Principles of Economics) 1. The phenomenon of scarcity stems from the fact that a. most economies’ production methods are not very good. b. in most economies‚ wealthy people consume disproportionate quantities of goods and services. c. governments restricts production of too many goods and services. d. resources are limited. 2. "There is no such thing as a free lunch‚" is used to illustrate the principle that a. goods are scarce. b. people face
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be a price taker‚ taking its price from the whole industry. 6. There are a very large numbers of firms in the market. 7. There is no need for government regulation‚ except to make markets more competitive. 8. There are assumed to be no externalities‚ that is no external costs or benefits. 9. Firms can only make normal profits in the long run‚ but they can make abnormal profits in the short run. The firm as price taker The single firm takes its price from the industry‚ and is‚ consequently
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1. Distinguish between Micro economics and Macro economics. Microeconomics may be defined as that branch of economic analysis‚ which studies the economic behavior of the individual unit‚ maybe a person‚ a particular household‚ or a particular firm. It is a study of one particular unit rather than all the units combined together. In microeconomics‚ we study the various units of the economy‚ how they function and how they reach their equilibrium. An important tool used in that of microeconomics is
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A REPORT ON EMISSION IN NEGATIVE EXTERNALITY AND PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND OF PETROLEUM Prepared for: Heng Kiat Sing Course Leader of ECO MBA Submitted: 6th Nov 2006 Prepared by: Liu Yi (IBMS/0607/009) EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report was authorized by the request of ECO5005 Economic of the Business Environment course leader‚ Heng Kiat Sing. This is to enable student to have a clear understanding on Externality‚ and Price Elastic‚ thus‚ enable to analyze price elasticity of
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Economics and Managerial Economics Economics may be defined as a branch of knowledge dealing with allocation of scarce resources among competing ends. Managerial Economics may be defined as application of eco for problem solving at corporate level. Factors affecting Managerial decision Often only pure logic does not contribute to decision making Human Factor Human behavioral considerations often influences a manager into compromising or moderation a decision which would otherwise have made
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MICROECONOMICS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 1.0 INTRODUCTION – THE SUBJECT MATTER OF ECONOMICS Economics comes from the verb ‘to economise’‚ and this means making ends meet. This is a study of how society makes decisions‚ regarding the allocation of scarce resources. Economics as a subject is divided into two parts; Economics‚ social science concerned with the production‚ distribution
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Subject: Business Economics Subject Code: BUECO5903 Course Coordinator / Moderator: Paul McPhee / David Spiers Assignment A: Microeconomics Student Name: Noor Aini Faiz Student Number: 30120381 Lecturer: Dr. Ganeshamoorthy Question 1: (a) Explain and illustrate using suitable diagrams‚ the impact of external costs and
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No Dogs Allowed 1. What economic question(s) does this case require the town to ask? What benefits and services would we provide to the community by building the dog park? Is building a dog park the best use of the undeveloped land? What percent of the population would benefit from building a dog park? 2. List the possible resources that the town would need to construct and maintain the park. Possible resources would include money‚ labor to construct the park and clear out the trees and maintenance
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