Chapter 1 What Is Economics? 1) All economic questions are about A) how to make money. B) what to produce. C) how to cope with scarcity. D) how to satisfy all our wants. 2) An incentive A) could be a reward but could not be a penalty. B) could be a penalty but could not be a reward. C) could be either a reward or a penalty. D) is the opposite of a tradeoff. 3) An inducement to take a particular action is called A) the marginal benefit. B) the marginal cost. C) opportunity cost
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What macroeconomic policy prescriptions/strategies would you recommend for Belize in an effort to foster economic growth and development? One characteristic that developing countries’ economies share is vulnerability. Belize is small in size‚ prone to natural disasters and environmental fragility. Belize also has an open economy with a high trade-GDP ratio‚ but its export base is very narrow‚ dominated by primary products (bananas‚ sugar‚ citrus‚ etc.) and natural resources. Therefore‚ the Belizean
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Fundamentals of Macroeconomics Part 1 In the United States economy there are several factors that affects its economy; these affects it in a different way; some of this effect are more severe than others. The gross domestic product (GDP)‚ the real‚ and the nominal (GDP) each causes different effect. There are others factors that affect the United States economy; such as the unemployment rate‚ the inflation rate‚ and the interest rate. These results have an effect on the grocery purchasing‚ the
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FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI) IN MALAYSIA Foreign direct investment (FDI) in its classic form is defined as a company from one country making a physical investment into building a factory in another country. It is the establishment of an enterprise by a foreigner. More specifically‚ foreign direct investment is a cross-border corporate governance mechanism through which a company obtains productive assets in another country .Its definition can be extended to include investments made to acquire
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NMIMS Global Access School for Continuing Education (NGA-SCE) Course: Business Economics SEM – I 1. Calculate Elasticity in the following cases: a) Assume that a business firm sells a product at the price of Rs 500. The firm has decided to reduce the price of the product to Rs 400. Consequently‚ the demand for the product is raised from 20‚000 units to 25‚000 units. Calculate the price elasticity of demand. ANSWER A: PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND: MEANING: Price elasticity of demand
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Chapter One Technical Problem 2 a) Implicit Costs: Opportunity cost = $500‚000 x 14% = $70‚000 Explicit Costs: What is paid for products/services = $80‚000 Total Economic Costs: Implicit Costs + Explicit Costs = $70‚000 + $80‚000 = $150‚000 b) Economic Profit: Total Revenues – Total Economic Cost = $175‚000 - $150‚000 = $25‚000 c) Accounting Profit: Total Revenues – Explicit Costs = $175‚000 - $80‚000 = $95‚000 d) New Implicit Costs = $500‚000 x 20% = $100‚000 Economic Profit: $175‚000 –
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The purpose of this essay is to analyse the performance of Barratt Developments PLC as an example of any organisation in terms of business‚ economic and management concepts. One of the most important and influential elements of the business environment is the structure of the industry. How a firm performs depends on the state of its particular industry and the amount of competition it faces. (Book) To describe the characteristics of the modern construction industry we should look at the nature of
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1. What is the difference between micro and macroeconomics? Economics covers a large area of economic concerns and is divided into two parts: Microeconomics and Macroeconomics. Microeconomics studies the actions of the individual actors within the economy‚ such as buyers‚ sellers‚ and businesses. Additionally‚ microeconomics allows the actors to differentiate the values from one decision to another. While macroeconomics examines a larger picture of the economy by studying the employment‚ incomes
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THE PREVAILING CULTURAL VALUES I. Introduction Today we live in a world that is somehow smaller than it is used to be. New communication technology (e.g. email and the WWW) has made it easier to a certain extent to cross previous boundaries and communicate across time and space. However‚ the new technology does not necessarily make it easier to collaborate and communicate intercultural. To effectively collaborate and communicate we have to share meanings. This often requires that we
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"Economics in One Lesson" is an introduction to free market economics written by Henry Hazlitt and published in 1946. Hazlitt begins his monumental book by describing the problems with economic science‚ showing that its fallacies are greatly exacerbated compared to other scientific fields because of special interests in government. The special interest groups consistently advocate policies that they benefit from at the expense of everyone else. Many people‚ however‚ believe these fallacies because
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