MICROECONOMICS CHAPTER 1 The Market Economy What is to be done? —Lenin When future historians look back on the close of the 20th century‚ one of the most sweeping changes they will note is the collapse of centrally planned economies in Eastern Europe. It is not far off to say that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was won not by the armies of the United States and its allies‚ but by the productive power of Western market economies. Mikhail Gorbachev‚ then leader of the Soviet
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SUBJECT NAME : MICROECONOMICS SUBJECT CODE : BEC1001 ACADEMIC YEAR : AY 2012/2013‚ OCT SEMESTER “By submitting this work‚ we are declaring that we are the originators of this work and that all other original sources used in this work have been appropriately acknowledged. We understand that plagiarism is the act of taking and using the whole or any part of another person’s work and presenting it as our own without proper acknowledgement. We also
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Limited resourcesTime‚ money. * Inability to satisfy all of our wants * Faced with scarcity we must choose among available alternatives * Trade offs * Incentive: Reward that encourages and action or penalty that discourages * Microeconomics: Choices of: * Individuals * Businesses * The way these choices interact in markets and the influence of the government * Macroeconomics: * Study of the performance of the national economy and the global economy * E.g.
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I. MICROECONOMIC Micro-environment is preferred as ‘the operating system’ which includes the forces that has significant impacts on and can affect the organization’s ability to operate and serve its customer (Chaffey et al‚ 2009). This is influenced by the need of customers and how services are provided to them through the competitors‚ marketing intermediaries‚ and suppliers within the marketplace (Chaffey et al‚ 2009). 1. Customer Airasia provides to its customers the basic flight carrier
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The notion of “fairness” is often the justification given for the government intervention in the market. Do you agree or disagree. 1.0 Introduction Fairness in the market can be defined as the equally distribution in the proportion of economic pie to every party. In the past‚ the economic prosperity is not uniformly allocated among the members of society. The wealthier will have a larger proportion of the economic pie whereas the poorer parties will only occupy a smaller part of the economic
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Research and discussion of press article About the article | Title of the article : Extension Responds: Katrina’s aftermath : How Hurricane Katrina will affect energy and fertilizer costs? | Source (Newspaper) and link to the article : University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension http://www.uwex.edu | Summary of the article :In 2005 Hurricane Katrina caused massive shortage on natural gas and fuel in the USA.Due to the location of the hurricane in southern USA‚ agricultural shipping‚ fuel production
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Interdependence The characteristics of oligopoly is interdependence‚ oligopoly firms have big relative to the market and they interdependence in making decision. The number of competitor is less and any oligopoly firms changes in the price and other economic factors or marketing strategy ‚it will affect the change in competitor firm. So the firms must attention about the other competitor change in the industry and also need to think over the market demand and cost of its product. In oligopoly
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Submit personally at: Student Service Centre Blk T16‚ Level 1 (T1612) APPLICATION FORM for SP Donors-Sponsored Scholarships or Bursaries / MOE Bursary /CDC-CCC Bursary* For Academic Year 20___ /___ This form may take you 5 mins to complete. After filling up Section 1 and putting your signature on Section 2‚ please use the checklist in Section 3 to prepare the documents that you need to submit. Name of Applicant : _____________________________________________ Handphone No. : ________________________________________________
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Practice Test # 3 Useful formulas/expressions: (1) MPC = ∆ C / ∆ DI or ∆ C / ∆ YD & MPC + MPS = 1 (2) Exp. Multiplier = 1/(1-MPC) ∆GDP = Exp Mult. * ∆AE (3) Δ AE = Δ Income * MPC (4) DD Multiplier = 1/rrr ∆DD = DD Mult. * ∆Reserves Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Long-run full-employment equilibrium assumes: a. a downward-sloping production function. b. a downward-sloping long-run supply curve (LRAS)
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Answer the following questions: Question One: Explain why each of the following two statements is False: (Assume that all variables are kept constant in all the 3 statements below) Statement (1):If the price of shoes decreases‚ then the demand on socks will decrease as well because the two goods are complement goods. This statement is false : because they are complement goods so is the price of (x) which is shoes decreases the quantity demand of (y) which is socks must increases. In
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