Summary: Economics And Business

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  • 1 understand basic economic concepts and apply them to business and policy decisions

  • 1.1 Chapter 1

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  • what is an economic agent?

    Is an individual or a group that makes choices. An economic agent can also be a government, a firm ,a university,...
  • What are scare resources?

    Scare resources are things that people want, where the quantity that people want exceeds the quantity that is available.
  • Why scarcity exists?

    Scarsità exists because people have unlimited wants in a world of limited resources
  • What positive economics describes?

    Positive economics describes what people actually do, objective statement about the world , statement that can be confirmed by the data
  • What normative economic describes/do?

    Normative economics advices individuals and society on their choices. Normative economics is almost always dependent on subjective judgement, depends at least in part on personal feeling, tastes or opinions
  • What are the three principles of economics?

    Optimisation, equilibrium and empiricism
  • What is feasibility in optimisation based on?

    Based on constraints
  • What is the opportunity cost in optimisation?

    Opportunity cost is the best alternative use of resource
  • When an economic agent faces a trade-off?

    An economic agent faces a trade-off when the agent needs to give up one thing to get something else
  • What is a budget constraint?

     Budget constraint is the set of thing that a person can choose to do (or buy) without breaking her budget

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