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Economics and Business

Import of Economics

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  • The opportunity costs in deciding what to buy – how to use time
  • Maximize our economic utility and avoid behavioral bias
  • How macro-economics – inflation, economic growth and employment prospects -- affect our living standards.
  • How individual markets -- housing market --can influence our standard of living.
  • Understanding issues of externialities --gasoline tax helps to reduce pollution and congestion and the tax revenue is used to subsides public transport --gives a different perspective.