Economies Traditional Economy‚ Command Economy & Market Economy Traditional Economy Definition A traditional economy is an economic system where customs‚ traditions and beliefs determine the goods and services created by the society. It is dependent on agriculture‚ hunting and gathering‚ fishing or any combination of the above. Also called a subsistence economy‚ it may involve use of barter trade instead of currency. Characteristics Traditional economies are often based on one
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What is Political economy? * No widespread agreement of what; but understood in three ways- those who see PE as an interaction of existing disciplines‚ those who see it as a set of questions‚ and those who see it as a method of analysis: Interaction of existing disciplines: * Starting point is that as capitalism develops politics and econ becoming increasingly interdependent. * Not only interdependence of domestic pol and national econ but also international pol and global econ
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Political Economy Economics‚ in its most general sense‚ is the science of scarcity. It deals with the allocation and distribution of limited resources to the economic elements concerned. The distribution of these resources is however a complex process involving supply and demand. The trade of goods and services is manifest in the market. Thus‚ the market is an essential part of the society. The society can hardly function without a market where the demands of the people‚ from the most basic necessities
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Background Dependency Theory developed in the late 1950s under the guidance of the Director of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America‚ Raul Prebisch. Prebisch and his colleagues were troubled by the fact that economic growth in the advanced industrialized countries did not necessarily lead to growth in the poorer countries. Indeed‚ their studies suggested that economic activity in the richer countries often led to serious economic problems in the poorer countries. Such a possibility
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contemporary meaning‚ political economy refers to different‚ but related‚ approaches to studying economic and related behaviours‚ ranging from the combination of economics with other fields to the use of different‚ fundamental assumptions that challenge earlier economic assumptions: Political economy most commonly refers to interdisciplinary studies drawing upon economics‚ sociology‚ and political science in explaining how political institutions‚ the political environment‚ and the economic system—capitalist
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Evaluating Technology Integration Technology is difficult to define like art or politics yet one way to assess technology is information and human understanding used to produce solution to practical problems (Hamel & Prahalad‚ 1993; Olsen et al.‚ 2009; University of Phoenix‚ 2013). Technology has the capacity to translate the skill of a practitioner into something that could not exist without it‚ expanding on the realm of plausible intent (Olsen et al.‚ 2009). There have been paradigm shifts
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MARKET ECONOMY | PLANNED ECONOMY | * The market economy is not run by a high authority. Instead it is run by many individuals regarding production‚ consumption and work. * The market is free and prices can be of a wide range * The market economy is intended for a middle/upper class. This is because people can earn as much money as they want‚ upper class people don’t have to distribute a profit evenly. * The theory of the market economy is to give people the capability to earn as much
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Financial Markets Introduction 1 Financial Markets & Flow of Funds Financial Markets M k t Lenders Households Firms Governments Foreigners Borrowers Households Firms Governments Foreigners Financial Institutions Note that lenders are suppliers of funds (surplus units) while borrowers are demanders/users of funds (deficit units) 2 1 Flow of Funds Financial institutions perform the essential function of channeling funds from surplus units to deficit units. Agents (e.g. brokers)
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4) Why are financial markets important to the health of the economy? A financial market is a market where people and organization can trade financial securities and commodities at prices according to the supply and demand. Example of securities are stocks and bonds‚ and commodities include properties or valuable assets. A market holds interested buyers and sellers‚ including households‚ firms‚ and government agencies‚ in one place. Financial markets helps the raising of capital‚ the transfer
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Nature of political economy The word economy‚ drawn from two Greek words‚ house and law‚ which together signify the management or arrangement of the material part of household or domestic affairs‚ means in its most common sense the avoidance of waste. We economize money or time or strength or material when we so arrange as to accomplish a result with the smallest expenditure. In a wider sense its meaning is that of a system or arrangement or adaptation of means to ends or of parts to a whole. Thus
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