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1. What is economics?

such as households, firms, markets


 Economics is a social science and industries. In other words,
which studies about efficient
 it deals how households and firms
allocation of scarce resources so as
to attain the maximum fulfillment make decisions and how they
of unlimited human needs. As interact in specific markets. It looks
economics is a science of choice, it
studies how people choose to use w happens on more
scarce or limited productive locals/individual
resources to produce various
3. What is macro-economics?
commodities.
 Macroeconomics is a branch of
2. What is micro-economics? economics that deals with the effects
 Microeconomics is concerned with and consequences of the aggregate
behavior of all decision-making units in
the economic behavior of
a certain economy.
individual decision-making units
 It looks at the economy as a whole
and discusses about the economy-
wide phenomena.
4. The difference b/w micro vs macro economics.

Microeconomics Macroeconomics
 Studies individual economic units of an  Studies an economy as a whole and its
economy. aggregates.
 Deals with individual income, individual prices,  Deals with national income and output and
individual outputs, etc. general price level
 Its central problem is price determination and  Its central problem is determination of level
allocation of resources. of income and employment.
 Its main tools are the demand and supply of  Its main tools are aggregate demand and
particular commodities and factors. aggregate supply of an economy as a
 It helps to solve the central problem of whole.
‗what, how and for whom to produce‘ in an  Helps to solve the central problem of
economy so as to maximize profits ‗full employment of resources in the
 Discusses how the equilibrium of a consumer, a economy.‘
producer or an industry is attained.  Concerned with the determination of
Examples: Individual income, individual savings, equilibrium levels of income and
individual prices, an individual firm‘s output, employment at aggregate level. Examples:
individual consumption, etc. national income, national savings, general
price level, national output, aggregate
consumption, etc.

5. What is economic decision making?


 Economic decision making are those decision In which people have to choose what
to do in a condition of scarcity because people have unlimited needs but have
limited resource with which to fulfil these needs .
 It divided two parts internal decision makers and external decision Makers

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