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 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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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
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MEANING SCOPE AND METHODS OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS INTRODUCTION Emergence of managerial economics as a separate course of management studies can be attributed to at least three factors.: (a) growing complexity of business decision making process due to changing market conditions and business environment (b) consequent upon‚ the increasing use of economic logic ‚ concepts theories and tools o economic analysis in the process of business decision making (c) Rapid increase in demand for professionally
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UNIT-1 THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS Nature Of Managerial Economics Managerial Economics and Business economics are the two terms‚ which‚ at times have been used interchangeably. Of late‚ however‚ the term Managerial Economics has become more popular and seems to displace progressively the term Business Economics. The prime function of a management executive in a business organization is decision-making and forward planning. Decision-making means the process of
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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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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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