Introduction to Economics

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Economics

  • Is a social science concerned with using scarce resources, to obtain the maximum of the unlimited wants of society.

  • Is the study of how societies use scarce resources to produce commodities and distribute them among different people.

  • Is the study of production, distribution, selling and use of goods and services.

  • Is the study of how people use their limited resources to try to satisfy unlimited wants

  • Is the allocation and use of scarce resources to satisfy the unlimited needs and wants of human.

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Econometrics

The use of statistical methods to develop theories or test existing hypothesis in economics or finance.

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Scarcity

  • Our needs are greater than our limited resources.

  • Is the reason why people have to study and practice.

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Economics as a social science

Studies how individuals make choice, in allocating scarce resources to satisfy their unlimited resources

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Economics as an applied economic/science

Is the application of economic theory and econometrics in specific settings with the goal of analyzing potential outcomes.

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Trade off

Consist of all the options that we give up when we make a choice.

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Opportunity cost

Is the highest valued alternative that must be sacrificed in order to get somethings else.

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Microeconomics

Is a branch of economics that is concerned with the decision making done by smaller economic units such as individuals or consumers, firms and industries.

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Macroeconomics

The study of the large economy as a whole or the aggregate economy.

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