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M1-L1: Basic Concepts of Economics Flashcards

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Economics comes from the Greek word “_____” meaning household and “_____” meaning management.

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Oikos, Nomos

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What is the meaning of “oikos” and “nomos”?

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Household Management

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He defined economics as “How people end up choosing, with or without use of money, to employ scarce resources that could have alternative uses to produce various commodities among various persons and groups in society.”

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Paul Samuelson (Economics)

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He defined economics as “Economics concerns situations in which choices must be made about how to use limited resources, when to use them and for what purposes. Resources can be defined as the things people use to make the commodities they want.”

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Roger Le Roy Miller (Economics, Today and Tomorrow)

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He defined economics as “The study of choice under the condition of scarcity.”

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Hall and Loeberman (Macroeconomics: Principles and Applications)

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He defined economics as “A social science that studies and seeks to allocate scarce human and non-human resources among alternatives in order to satisfy unlimited human wants and desires.”

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Bernardo Villegas (Guide to Economics for Filipinos)

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He defined economics as “A scientific study which deals with how individuals and society make choices.”

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Gerardo Sicat (Economics)

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A situation wherein the amount of something available is insufficient to satisfy the desire for it.

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Scarcity

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The labor, capital, land, and natural resources and entrepreneurship that are used to produce goods and services.

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Resources

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Without limits, infinite.

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Unlimited

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Desires

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Wants

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A social science that deals with how people can organize themselves in order to allocate scarce resources in order to produce goods and services that will satisfy the unlimited and multiplying wants and needs of man.

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Economics

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Is the use of inputs to produce outputs.

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Production

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Are commodities and services that are used to produce goods and services.

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Inputs

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Examples of these are labor, fuel, raw materials, factory buildings, production machines, etc.

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Inputs

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Are the different goods and services which come out of production process.

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Outputs

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Is the allocation of the total product among members of the society.

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Distribution

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It is the use of good or service. It is the ultimate end of economic activity.

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Consumption

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Is concerned with government expenditures and revenues.

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Public Finance

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Branch of economics which deals with national databases such as national economic data, economic report, and quarterly statistical report.

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Descriptive Economics

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Refers to the discipline which has its objects, the national economy. It studies economics from a formal point of view from which it investigates economic reality.

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Theoretical Economics

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Refers to the prescriptive aspect of the economy in which a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government in the area of taxation and gov borrowing.

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Policy Economics

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Deals with the economic behavior of individual units such as consumers, firms, the owners of factors of production.

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Microeconomics

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Deals with the behavior of the whole economy such as unemployment, inflation, business, and the like.

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Macroeconomics

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Refers to the management of income, wealth, expenditures, or resources of a nation.

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Macroeconomics

26
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Most common use of economics is for the ______.

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Family

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At this level, anyone who knows the economic principle will be able to improve the running of the household.

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Household Economics

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When a person/group of persons begins to work, they come under this system of economics in their workplace.

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Business Economics

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In this type of economics, you deal with rent, profit, salary, etc.

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Business Economics

30
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Economic factors of problems affecting the whole nation.

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National Economics

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The highest stage of economic activities involving the business of one country with other countries like trades, tourism, and exchange rates.

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International Economics

32
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Economics is a _______ because it is an organized body of truth, coordinated, arranges, and systematized with references to certain general laws and principles.

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Science

33
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Economics is a ______ _______ because the subject matter is people or societies and their behavior.

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Social Science

34
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What are the five stages of historical developments of economics?

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Hunting & Fishing -> Pastoral Stage -> Agricultural Stage -> Handicraft Stage -> Industrial Stage

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