Economics is the social science that studies the behavior of individuals‚ households‚ and organizations (called economic actors‚ players‚ or agents)‚ when they manage or use scarce resources‚ which have alternative uses‚ to achieve desired ends. Agents are assumed to act rationally‚ have multiple desirable ends in sight‚ limited resources to obtain these ends‚ a set of stable preferences‚ a definite overall guiding objective‚ and the capability of making a choice. There exists an economic problem
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Vladir Diaz Thirteen Colonies The thirteen colonies in the United States are‚ Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ Connecticut‚ New York‚ New Jersey‚ Pennsylvania‚ Delaware‚ Maryland‚ Virginia‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina and Georgia. Each one of them has their own story characteristics that I’ll be listing them in the following paragraphs. Massachusetts was founded on 1630 by John Winthrop and others. Their major industry consists of fishing‚ corn‚ livestock‚ lumbering‚ shipbuilding and their
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Economics | | |Sr. No. |Core Areas |Percentage | |1. |Micro-Economics |15% | |2. |Marco-Economics |15% | |3. |Econometrics
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Perfect competition A perfectly competitive market is a hypothetical market where competition is at its greatest possible level. Neo-classical economists argued that perfect competition would produce the best possible outcomes for consumers‚ and society. Ex:- Wheat‚ rice Key characteristics Perfectly competitive markets exhibit the following characteristics: 1. There is perfect knowledge‚ with no information failure or time lags. Knowledge is freely available to all participants‚ which means
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Economics 1 Assignment Name: Shaun Neo Wei Qiang Student CT NO. : CT0209608 Date : 18th April 2014 Module : Economics 1 Lecturer : Mr Wong Hean Hoo Outline 1) Introduction 2 2) Relating to the Article – Inflation 3 3) Some of the causes for inflation 4 4) Managing inflation 5 5) Conclusion 6 6) Biblology 7 7) Actual Article Selected 8 Page 1 Introduction The article I chose Is from Today
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Economics 1Assessment Instructions Assessment 2: Individual Assignment‚ 30% of Module Weighting 1.0) RELEVANT MODULE LEARNING OUTCOMES: A. Analyse a range of current economic issues and problems. B. Develop and communicate economic arguments in a variety of forms. C. Be able to make effective presentations of economic arguments. D-J The nature of this assignment is such that students will analyse a particular newspaper article and‚ depending on the subject matter‚ will respond to one
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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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established with reference to the projected course of variables like sales‚ inventory etc. Projection is of two types – forward and backward. It is a forward projection of data variables‚ which is named forecasting. By contrast‚ the backward projection of data may be named ‘back casting’‚ a tool used by the new economic historians. For practical managers concerned with futurology‚ what is relevant is forecasting‚ the forward
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Strategic responses in the recession…………………………………………………7 6. Conclusion………………………………………………………………….……….9 7. Bibliography…………………………………………………….…………………10 1. Introduction The economic crisis that shook the international markets had mixed reactions in the companies. Some were flat‚ hoping to improve the scenario. Others decided to go for innovation in search for new business areas. With proper planning and strategies‚ now envision
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the early colonies of America. You might be surprised to read that Africans‚ not Indians‚ were the first American slaves. By 1617‚ one hundred and twenty five years after Columbus and his European men arrived in North America; Virginian had become an established colony and they were in trouble. They had lost hundreds’ as a result of starvation and had become desperate for both food and labor. This‚ you could say was the “historical force” behind slavery in the colonies. Virginia
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