01/11/2022
DID YOU KNOW?
Economics is the science of decision making/choice in a situation of scarcity. Most people think that economics is all about money. It is not true, and economics is a study about how individuals and societies deal with the ideas of scarcity. Economics is divided in to two groups which is macro and micro economics
To start with, Microeconomics is the study of small and individual economic units. It looks at the economic behavior of individuals, firms, small groups, and industries and their decision making.
Secondly, Macroeconomics is looking at the big picture of the economy. It is the study of the large economy as whole or economic aggregates like national income, money, price level, unemployment, economic growth, etc.
Above mentioned micro and macro economics, individuals and countries make decisions based on Scarcity, choice/selection and opportunity cost
Understanding Scarcity
It is the situation of having unlimited wants and limited resources. It refers to the case of excess demand for resources than its supply. If resources were unlimited, there would be no economic problems and no economics.
Understanding Choice/Selection
Limited resources and unlimited demands compel us to go on making choices. The choice is the economic problem that helps us to achieve maximum satisfaction.
Understanding Opportunity Cost
When you make a choice, you give up all the other alternatives that you could have. But at the same time, you cannot have all the things, or you cannot choose all the alternatives that you have made or rank. Making choice means you have done your best decision and if you consider one best thing that you gave up is called opportunity cost. So, it is the most desirable
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