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Wage Determination in Perfectly Competitive Labour Markets
How wages are
determined in a perfectly competitive labour market. A perfectly competitive
labour market will have the following features:
·
Many firms
·
Perfect information
about wages and job conditions
·
Firms are offering
identical jobs
·
Many workers with same
skills
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Inflation
Inflation refers to
a situation where there is a continuous and persistent rise in general price
level in a country. Inflation erodes the real value of money. It lead to a fall
in purchasing power. Rs. 100 (nominal value) under an inflation rate of 10% is
worth less than Rs. 100.
Real value is:
Time period and costs
TIME PERIOD AND COSTS
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Monetary and Fiscal Policy
Monetary Policy (M. P.)
It refers to a
term used for the deliberate attempt by the government to regulate the level of
economic activities by controlling the money supply, level of
interest and conditions available for credit.
Fiscal Policies (F.P.)
It is an
instrument of demand management which seeks to influence the level of economic
activity through the control of taxation and government expenditure.
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Unemployment
Unemployment
can be defined as: “a state of affairs when in a country there are large number
of able-bodied persons of working age who are willing to work but cannot find
work at current wage level.” The labour
force or working population: “is the total number of workers available for
employment in a country.” The force comprises those people currently working as
employees, the self-employed and people currently unemployed. The size of the
labour forces depend on the activity rate- i.e. the proportion of a country’s
total population which makes up the labour force. The
unemployment rate is: “the number of unemployed workers expressed as a % of a
country’s labour forces.”
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Keywords:
Type of unemployment
Type of unemployment
Philip curve
Cost of unemployment
Introduction to Macroeconomics and National Income Accounting
Microeconomics:
is the study of individuals’ behaviour in the economy. It is concerned with for
e.g., the behaviour of firms, consumers, and the determination of market prices
and quantities.
Macroeconomics:
is the study of aggregate economic activity. Macroeconomic investigates how the
economy as a whole works. For instance, it is concerned with the overall price
level, overall employment level or price stability.
Macroeconomic
objectives of the government:
(i)
full employment
(ii)
the avoidance of
high inflation rate
(iii)
economic growth
(iv)
balance of
payment equilibrium
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Additional notes: National income.doc
Theory of Firms
The Objectives of Firms
(i) Profit Maximization
(ii) Sales-Revenue Maximization
(iii) Asset-growth maximization
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Keywords:
Perfect competition
Monopolistic competition
Oligopoly
Monopoly
Developing the theory of supply: Cost and Production
Cost of production refers to the expenses that are
incurred during the process of production. They represent all spending on
factor inputs, resources that are used during production. Cost is related to
the period of time and economists use the concept of short-run and long run.
Keywords:
Short-run
Long run
Economies of scale
Objectives of Firms
Demand, Supply and the Market
A
market refers to an institution characterized by the market forces namely
demand and supply. It is also defined as a situation where buyers and sellers
can be in touch with each other to buy and sell some commodities.
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Keywords:
Demand
Types of Demand
Supply
Equilibrium
Movements and shifts in demand/supply curves
Sources of shifts in market demand
curves
Price floor or minimum price
Price elasticity of demand
Substitutes goods
Complementary Goods
Income Elasticity
The Basic Economic Problem and Market Failures
Definition of Economics
Economics
is the study of the problem of using the available factors of production as
efficiently as possible so as to attain the maximum fulfillment of the
society’s unlimited demands for goods and services.
According to Lionel Robbins: “Economics is the science that studies human behaviour as a relationship between ends and scarce means that have alternative uses.”
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Keywords:
Microeconomics v/s Macroeconomics
The Economic Problem
Choices
Opportunity Cost
The Production Possibility Frontier
The Economic System
Subsistence Economies
The Capitalist System
Mixed Economies
Market Failure
Public v/s Merit Goods
Externalities
Economic system
An economic system is the way a society sets about allocating (deciding) which goods to produce and in which quantities.
OR
An economic system relates to a social framework of rules and regulations for answering the basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce.
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OR
An economic system relates to a social framework of rules and regulations for answering the basic economic questions of what to produce, how to produce and for whom to produce.
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