1. Distinguish between Micro economics and Macro economics. Microeconomics may be defined as that branch of economic analysis‚ which studies the economic behavior of the individual unit‚ maybe a person‚ a particular household‚ or a particular firm. It is a study of one particular unit rather than all the units combined together. In microeconomics‚ we study the various units of the economy‚ how they function and how they reach their equilibrium. An important tool used in that of microeconomics is
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Joseph Stalin was a General Secretary of the Central committee of the communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953. He changed Russia from an undeveloped country into a modernised country. As Stalin became secretary general‚ he intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into a new modern country. To do this‚ he introduced the new industrialisation plans. Theses industrialisation plans had a major effect on the lives of people in the Union Socialist Republics (USSR) during
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command economy. In mixed economy both the private and public sector need to co-exist to overcome the weakness of one another. Most countries practice mixed economy for a number of reasons as mentioned below. Where there is free market enterprise economic forces are unfettered. Supply and demand determine the prices of goods and services. Prices in turn tell businesses what to produce‚ if the people want more of a particular good than the economy is producing the price of the good rises. That catches
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w w w e tr .X m eP UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS GCE Advanced Subsidiary Level and GCE Advanced Level e ap .c rs om MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2007 question paper 9708 ECONOMICS 9708/02 Paper 2 (Data Response and Essay (Core))‚ maximum raw mark 40 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates‚ to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate
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Macroeconomics Basic economics concepts Basic economics problems Production possibilities curve INTRODUCTION Economics is one of the oldest disciplines among the humanities and is categorized as a social science. Economics examines and analyses the economic activity of people in order to satisfy their needs and desires. Human wants are the starting point of economic activity and provide the basis for economics. Generally‚ economics deals with the economic problems of individuals
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1. Below is a list of topics in usually studied in economics. Determine whether each topic deals under the area of microeconomics or macroeconomics. a. How Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas influences the consumer spending in the Philippines. b. How a household decides what LPG brand to buy. c. How a firm decides whether to continue business or shutdown. d. How debt affects the income gap among Filipinos. e. How new parents decide whether to work or stay at home with their children. f. How the
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UNIVERSITY OF DELHI DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS Minutes of Meeting Subject : Course : Date of Meeting: Venue : Convenor Attended by: 1. Basanti Kumari Nayak‚ Satyawati College 2. Supriti Mishra‚ Shyam Lal College 3. Chhavi Gautam‚ Kamla Nehru College 4. Lokendra Kumawat‚ Ramjas College 5. Rashmi Mittal‚ Dyal Singh College 6. Reetika Rana‚ Shivaji College 7. Punam Tyagi‚ Kalindi College 8. Aditi Aeron Bansal‚ Shaheed Bhagat Singh College 9. Vandana Sethi‚ Motilal Nehru College
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Introduction THE NATIONAL INCOME One of the basic questions facing economics centers on whether the total output of goods and services is growing from year to year or it remains static. This question is very important because countries are keenly interested in the performance of their economy. National income estimates enable countries to calculate the total production of goods and services in a year. The lecture also focuses on the measurement of national income and their problems‚ uses
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Joseph Stalin was born in 1870 in bitter poverty in Georgia‚ a region in Southern Russia. Unlike other well-educated and cultured leaders‚ he was very crude and rough. He was cold‚ hard‚ and impersonal. When he became part of Bolsheviks‚ he changed his name to Stalin‚ which means “man of steel” in Russian. There was a clear distinction between Stalin and Lenin‚ who were two of the most notable men during that time in Russia. Between 1922 and 1927‚ Stalin began his movements to seize control over
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Semester I Revised June 2012 Revised Business Economics I Syllabus for F.Y.B.Com from June 2012 onwards University of Mumbai Semester I Module I: Demand analysis Demand function and determinants of demand – Concept and importance of Elasticity of demand‚ Income‚ cross‚ promotional. Case studiesConsumer surplus‚ Demand forecasting: meaning significance and methods-case studies Module II Theory of production and cost Production function-short run and long run- Law of variable proportions- Isoquantproducers’
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