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Daphne S. Magtibay
Everyday Economics
“ECONOMICS IS LIFE IN
GRAPHS”
Economics relates to your everyday lives.
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Why study and understand Economics?
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What is ECONOMICS?
ECONOMICS
is social science that studies how
individuals, governments, firms, and nations
make optimal choices on allocating scarce
resources to satisfy their unlimited wants1
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Economic Way of Thinking
Limits, Alternatives, and Choices
SCARCITY
is the limitation of economic resources to
fulfill infinite human needs and wants. Why
is there scarcity? The main explanation lies
in the fact that man’s wants and needs are
unlimited, while the actual goods and
services that can satisfy those needs are
limited.
FIELDS OF ECONOMICS
Microeconomics and Macroeconomics (from Economics by Case and Fair, 9th Ed.)
How much steel Price of medical care Wages in the auto Jobs in the steel
How much office Price of gasoline industry industry
space Food prices Minimum wage Number of employees
How many cars Apartment rents Executive salaries in a firm
Poverty Number of
accountants
Total industrial output Consumer prices Total wages and Total number of jobs
Gross domestic Producer prices salaries Unemployment rate
product Rate of inflation Total corporate
Growth of output profits
MICROECONOMICS VS MACROECONOMICS
FIELDS OF ECONOMICS
MICROECONOMICS
Branch of economics concerned with
individual units of such as a person, a
household, a firm, or an industry.
FIELDS OF ECONOMICS
MACROECONOMICS
Branch of economics that examines either
the economy as a whole or its basic
subdivisions or aggregates, such as
government, household, and business
sectors.
FIELDS OF ECONOMICS
When we study the consumption
behavior or equilibrium of a consumer;
the production pattern & equilibrium of a
firm, the entire analysis is ‘micro’ in
nature……because
we study a UNIT and not the SYSTEM
in which it is operating.
WHY STUDY MACROECONOMICS?
The economic well being of consumers
rich or poor is affected by movement in
interest rates, exchange rates, inflation
etc.
Businesses stand to gain or lose
considerable amounts of money when
their economic environment changes,
regardless of how well they are managed.
ROOTS OF MACROECONOMICS?