What is Economics? Flashcards

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It is critical to reduce our ecological footprint, manage shared resources efficiently, and assist emerging countries in creating sustainable consumption practices

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SDG 12

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encourages enterprises to adopt sustainable practices and provides customers with information and tools to help them make sustainable decisions

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SDG 12

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Who said the statement that “economics is the science that studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means that have alternative uses”

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Lionel Robbins

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Who said the statement “Economics is the study of how individuals and society choose, with or without the use of capital, to use finite productive resources that may have alternate uses, to create certain goods over time, and to allocate them for use, now and in the future to different persons and classes in society”

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Paul A. Samuelson

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smallest society

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household

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This branch of economics defines and discusses aggregate-related economic processes

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Macroeconomics

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This branch of economics is an economic division that examines how individuals and firms make choices about allocating scarce capital

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Microeconomics

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This is a view of economics that focuses on describing, quantifying, and explaining economic developments, expectations, and related phenomena. Relies on objective analysis of the data, relevant facts, and related figures.

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Positive Economics

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This is a view of economics that focuses on political opinions and value assessments, and statements aimed at economic development, investment projects, and scenarios.

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Normative Economics

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This economic writer wrote Wealth of Nations (land, labor, and capital as the main production factors and major contributors.

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Adam Smith

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This economic writer wrote Das Capital and showed the importance of labor theory and what he viewed as capital exploitation.

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Karl Max

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This economic writer concentrated on his theory, neoclassical economy or marginalism. “Principles of Economics” is that the price and output of a good are determined by both supply and demand.

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Alfred Marshall

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This economic writer wrote The General Theories of Work, Interest, and Monetary Affairs, which has opened up contemporary macroeconomics in a distinct field. He was there on the time of Great Depression

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John Maynard Keynes

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Contemporary economics is also known as mathematical economics.

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Economics in practice

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It describes a simplified description of the relationship between two or more variables.

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Theory

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It is used for testing theories.

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Models

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Controlled experiments that are common in physical science are challenging and uncommon in Economics. Economic theories are empirically investigated, primarily by using Econometrics.

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Empirical Investigation

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It is a branch that studies strategic interactions between agents in applied mathematics. To analyze the supply and demand model markets.

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Game Theory

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What are the macroeconomic objectives?

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Full Employment, Stability, Economic Growth

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What are the Microeconomics objectives?

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Efficiency and Equity