1.economics Is The Study of How Society Manages Its Scarce Resources. 2

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Economics is the study of how society manages its scarce


resources.
2. The two major branches of Economics are microeconomics
and macroeconomics.
Microeconomics is the study of how individuals and
companies make decisions to allocate scarce resources.
Examples:1.How a local business decides to allocate their
funds.
2.How a city decides to spend a government surplus.
Whereas Macroeconomics is the study of a national
economy as a whole, It focuses on issues that affect nations
and world economy.
Examples:1.Inflation 2.Employment or Unemployment
3.Whole economy(GDP).
3.The tern Trade Off in economics refer to the fact that
budgeting inevitably involves sacrificing some of Xo get
more of Y.
Examples are:Guns and Butter. The more society spends on
national defence(guns) to protect its shores from foreign
aggressors, the les it can spendon consumer goods(butter)
to raise standard of living at home.

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