Management Business Economics NATURE & SCOPE OF ECONOMICS What is Economics? Issue in economics Macroeconomics Microeconomics Lecture 1 (c) Copyright MFA 11 Nature and Scope of Economics All About Economics Want and Desires Scarcity Economic Problems Opportunity Cost Production Possibility Curve(PPC) Shift of The PPC. 2 9/21/2011 Lecture 1 (c) Copyright MFA 11 WHAT IS ECONOMICS? 3 Issues in Economics Demand Competitiveness
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______________________________________ DEFINITION NATURE AND SCOPE OF ECONOMICS ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________ 19 ____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________ DEFINITION OF ECONOMICS Economics is social science‚ which is concerned with the efficient use of scarce resources to achieve the maximum satisfaction of economic wants. A basic understanding of economics is essential for well-informed
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Unit – I Nature & Scope of Managerial Economics Contents Fundamental Economics Concepts: Opportunity Cost‚ Discounting principle‚ Time perspective‚ Incremental reasoning‚ Equi-marginal concept. Marginal concept in economics. Economics of information: Risk‚ Uncertainty‚ Asymmetry of information‚ Adverse Selection‚ Market Signaling. The theory of firm; Econometric Models & Economic optimization. ____________________________________________________________________________________
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THE NATURE‚ SCOPE AND METHODS OF ECONOMICS THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETY:- Most introductory textbooks of Economics begin by asking the question ‘What is Economics about?’ Although Economics is a vast subject and precise definitions are usually complex and controversial‚ it is not a difficult matter to give a simple and sensible answer to this basic question. Economics is essentially a study of the ways in which people provide for their well-being. Economists are concerned with the study of
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The Nature and Scope of Managerial Economics Managerial Economics • Managerial economics‚ meaning the application of economic methods in the managerial decisionmaking process‚ and it is a fundamental part of any business. This is happening for several reasons It is becoming more important for managers to make good decisions and to justify them‚ as their accountability either to management or to shareholders increases. Number and size of multinationals increases‚ the costs and benefits
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Lesson - 1 Business Economics- Meaning‚ Nature‚ Scope and significance Introduction and meaning : (Author : Dr. M.S. Khanchi) Business Economics‚ also called Managerial Economics‚ is the application of economic theory and methodology to business. Business involves decision-making. Decision making means the process of selecting one out of two or more alternative courses of action. The question of choice arises because the basic resources such as capital‚ land‚ labour and management are limited and
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The Nature and Scope of Managerial Economics Dr. Mohammad Abdul Mukhyi‚ SE.‚ MM Economics is the social science that studies the production‚ distribution‚ and consumption of goods and services. 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
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Scope of Managerial Economics Economics has two major branches namely Microeconomics and Macroeconomics and both are applied to business analysis and decision-making directly or indirectly. Managerial economics comprises all those economic concepts‚ theories‚ and tools of analysis which can be used to analyze the business environment and to find solutions to practical business problems. In other words‚ managerial economics is applied economics The areas of business issues to which economic theories
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Scope of Economics ‘Scope’ means the sphere of study. We have to consider what economics studies and what lies beyond it. The scope of economics will be brought out by discussing the following. a) Subject – matter of economics. b) Economics is a social science c) Whether Economics is a science or an art? d) If Economics is science‚ whether it is positive science or a normative science? a) Subject – matter of economics: Economics studies man’s life and work. It does not study how a person
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CHAPTER 1—NATURE AND SCOPE OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS MULTIPLE CHOICES 1. Business profit is: a. the residual of sales revenue minus the explicit accounting costs of doing business. b. a normal rate of return. c. economic profit. d. the return on stockholders’ equity. 2. To maximize value‚ management must: a. maximize short run revenue. b. minimize short run average profit. c. maximize long run profit. d. maximize short run profit. 3. Value maximization is broader than profit maximization because
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