Sunday, January 8, 2017

Unit 1

 January 3


Basic Concepts of Economics
  • Macroeconomics- The study of the economy as a whole
  • Microeconomics- The study of individual or specific units of the economy.
    • Supply and Demand
    • Business Organization
  • Positive economics- Claims that attempt to describe the word as is 
    • collects and presents facts 
    • Very descriptive  
  • Normative economics- Claims that attempt to prescribe how the world should be.
  • Needs- Basic requirements for survival
  • Wants- Desires 
  • Scarcity- The fundamental economic problems that all societies face
    • How the satisfy unlimited wants with limited resource
  • Shortage- Situation in which quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied.




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