The Basic Economics Problem The highlighted sentence are copying from the textbooks Scarcity – the resources that are limited in supply so that people have to make choice to buy them. Free Goods - the resources that are unlimited in supply‚ like air and water on the earth. Economics Goods - the resources that are limited in supply and they are scarce. People have infinite needs and wants but there are limited resources on the earth‚ so that people have to make choice and have the trade-off
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education and training adds to the quality of the labour.this enhances his total productivity.this in turn adds to the growth of the economy. efficient use of natural resources and invention of new technology have made some countries developed/rich. economic activities are classified as market and non-market activities. market activities - involve renumeration to anyone who perfroms. non market involves activities done for self consumption. due to historical and cultural reasons there is a division
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GHANA ECONOMIC OVERVIEW In the first quarter of 2010‚ the Ghanaian economy continued to show increasing stability. The drop in inflation rate deepened as headline inflation recorded a ninth consecutive decline in March. Supported by strong inflows from exports‚ increased international reserves‚ the foreign exchange market remained stable and the cedi strengthened against the major trading currencies. At the end of the first quarter‚ the country’s gross international reserves stood at US$3.3 billion
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Economics investigates human behaviour and its consequences on a world with scarce resources. Economics: Deals with practical problems like inflation. The need to understand economics to the economic problem arises because the supply of the resources is limited in relation to the demand or wants of individuals. Since the wants of society are unlimited in relation to the supply of resources‚ the problem of scarcity arises The more scarce the item the more money. Therefore if something is
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BASIC LESSONS IN ECONOMICS Economics is a field of study that has come into being because there is scarcity of resources to be solved by mankind. Had everything that man needed been abundant‚ there should have been no more need for Economics. It is because there is scarcity of resources‚ therefore‚ that Economics has been born to provide measures on how scarce but productive resources should be harnessed for the benefit of mankind. Economics is a social science that deals with the study
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The Basic Economic Problem: Scarcity and Choice Tuesday‚ September 13‚ 2011 by Geoff Riley It is often said that the central purpose of economic activity is the production of goods and services to satisfy our changing needs and wants. The basic economic problem is about scarcity and choice. Every society has to decide: What goods and services to produce: Does the economy uses its resources to operate more hospitals or hotels? Do we make more iPhones and iPads or double-espressos? Does the
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First of all‚ before I will discuss this article‚ I will define first what is Economics and its kinds. Economics is the study of how the forces of supply and demand allocate scarce resources. Subdivided into microeconomics‚ which examines the behavior of firms‚ consumers and the role of government; and macroeconomics‚ which looks at inflation‚ unemployment‚ industrial production‚ and the role of government. In this news paper article‚ it talks about the condition of the consumer with the inflation
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Basic Economic Concepts Basic Indicators The following basic economic indicators are important to understand: * Gross Domestic Product (GDP) - is the total amount of all goods and services produced in the country. This includes consumer spending‚ government spending and business inventories. Real GDP is a variant that takes out the impact of inflation‚ so that GDP can be compared over time. Real GDP is the basic measure of business activity and tracks the business cycle. * Consumer Price
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Learning MS-DOS Basics CONTENTS 1. Overview 2 2. MS-DOS Commands. 2 2.1. Internal commands 2 2.2. External Commands 2 3. The Command Prompt 3 4. Typing a Command 3 5. Viewing the Contents of a Directory 3 5.1 To view the contents of a directory one screen at a time 4 5.2 To view the contents of a directory in wide format 5 6. Changing Drives 5 7. Changing Directories 6 7.1 Changing directories 6 7.2 Changing Back to the Root Directory 7 8. Creating a Directory 7 9. Deleting
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The basic economics of markets 1.7 Introduction Economic analysis is useful because of the importance of economic issues in the business environment. Anyone who has lived through the 2008-9 world recession can scarcely doubt how much we are all affected by these issues. Economic theories often use simplifying assumptions. Two of the most common assumptions are (a) that producers and consumers make rational decisions and (b) that we can change on factor whilst leaving everything else constant
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