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Managerial economics deals with the problems individual organisations face, such as the organisation's main objectives, the demand for its products, the organisation's price and output decisions, available substitutes and giveaways, the supply of inputs and raw materials, the target or potential consumers of its products, etc. [3]
While the latter have had turnouts of about 50–60% over the past 60 years, only about 40% of those eligible to vote go to the polls in midterm elections. [2] [3] Historically, midterm elections often see the president's party lose seats in Congress, and also frequently see the president's opposite-party opponents gain control of one or both ...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems is a 2019 nonfiction book by Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both professors of economics at MIT. It was published on November 12, 2019 by PublicAffairs (US), Juggernaut Books (India), and Allen Lane (UK).
The area of economics that focuses on production is called production theory, and it is closely related to the consumption (or consumer) theory of economics. [ 2 ] The production process and output directly result from productively utilising the original inputs (or factors of production ). [ 3 ]
The Curriculum Open-Access Resources in Economics Project (CORE Econ) is an organisation that creates and distributes open-access teaching material on economics. The goal is to make teaching material and reform the economics curriculum. [ 1 ]
Information economics or the economics of information is the branch of microeconomics that studies how information and information systems affect an economy and economic decisions. [ 1 ] One application considers information embodied in certain types of commodities that are "expensive to produce but cheap to reproduce."
As sociology arose primarily as a reaction to capitalist modernity, economics played a role in much classic sociological inquiry. The specific term "economic sociology" was first coined by William Stanley Jevons in 1879, later to be used in the works of Émile Durkheim , Max Weber and Georg Simmel between 1890 and 1920. [ 1 ]
New Zealand has reported 4,645 new cases over the past week, bringing the total number to 2,441,517. There are 3,597 recoveries, bringing the total number of recoveries to 2,433,678. There are 10 deaths, bringing the death toll to 3,229. [286]