Economics Assessments 1.1.1 Scarcity‚ Choice‚ Opportunity Costs‚ and Comparative Advantage – Using examples‚ explain how scarcity‚ choice‚ opportunity costs affect decisions that households‚ businesses‚ and governments make in the market place and explain how comparative advantage creates gains from trade. 1. Willie loves ice cream. He has found a store that sells ice cream cones at a bargain price of $0.50 each. He has just eaten two of these cones but has not decided to buy a third one
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ECONOMICS Economic Problem * Unlimited wants‚ limited resources Economic Systems * Questions to answer: 1. What to produce? 2. How much to produce? 3. How to produce? 4. For whom to produce? * Criteria to classify economic systems 1. Productive resources owned by private individuals (private sector) or government (public sector) 2. Role of market forces of demand and supply in allocating resources‚ determining prices‚ distributing incomes 3. Role of government in production
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ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT In contemporary times‚ certain economic registers are used frequently. Arguably two of these most used terms in economics‚ ‘economic growth’ and ‘economic development’ are terms that just about everyone is at least remotely familiar with‚ even if they have not studied economics at all. Sometimes it seems everyone knows what economic growth and economic development is. Politicians use these terms all the time‚ and so do teachers‚ managers and even preachers
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Definitions; Basic economic problem – Capital capital goods‚ or real capital are those already-produced durable goods that are used in production of goods or services. Command economy – economy where supply and price are regulated by the government rather than market forces Division of labour - Division of labour is the specialization of cooperative labour in specific‚ circumscribed tasks and like roles Enterprise- simply another name for a business. Free market economy - is an economy in
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Introduction The current state of the world economy is quite uncertain. Economic statistics that governments and other financial institutions use to project the economy imply that the world economy is shrinking. Since 2008‚ the state of the American economy has not been attractive. For instance‚ the United States economy has not registered any significant growth for the last three years. The 2011 second quarter results indicated that gross domestic product improved by 1%. At the same time‚ there
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each of these sectors are commonly termed consumption expenditures‚ investment expenditures‚ government purchases‚ and net exports. Aggregate expenditures (AE) are a cornerstone in the study of macroeconomics‚ playing critical roles in Keynesian economics‚ aggregate market analysis‚ and to a lesser degree‚ monetarism. In particular‚ aggregate expenditures are combined with the price level as aggregate demand. Aggregate expenditures are the total expenditures on gross domestic product. These expenditures
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Theme No. 7 Capacity building for encashing technological options and Entrepreneurial Opportunities Role of Women Entrepreneurs in Agricultural Development: Problems and Prospects Dr. C.S Arneja and Gaganpreet Kaur Dept. of Extension Education Punjab Agricultural University‚ Ludhiana. ABSTRACT The emergence of entrepreneurs in agriculture and allied activities can propel our rural population into self sustaining individuals‚ who in turn can catalyze the development of economy. The concepts of
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Economics Chapter One: Ten Principles of Economics Scarcity – the limited nature of society’s resources Economics – the study of how society manages its scarce resources Principle #1: People Face Tradeoffs Making decisions requires trading off one goal against another A dollar/unit of time spent on one thing is one less dollar/unit of time less spent on another Common trade offs include: “butter for guns”‚ a clean environment or a high level of income & Efficiency – the property of society
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Construction Economics: Government Economic Policy A policy refers to any rule or principle used in guiding decision making and achieving rational results. The intended goals to be achieved by a policy widely vary with the organization and the context to which it was made. Policies are basically made to prevent negative effects noticed in an organization or promote positive benefits. Government economic policy refers to the actions that a government takes to influence its economy. The economic policy
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Introduction to Managerial Economics Managerial economics (sometimes referred to as business economics) is a branch of economics that applies microeconomic analysis to decision methods of businesses or other management units. As such‚ it bridges economic theory and economics in practice. It draws heavily from quantitative techniques such as regression analysis and correlation‚ Lagrangian calculus (linear). If there is a unifying theme that runs through most of managerial economics it is the attempt to optimize business
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