Aggregate demand

Transfer price has been defined as an amount charged on a product or service when supplying division transfers the good or service to receiving division. In this situation, Electrical Division is the supplying division, while Brake Division is the receiving division. During the process of setting transfer price, W Industries should ensure the goal congruence between Electrical Division and Brake Division. In other words, both divisions should not strive to maximize their own divisions’ profits…

3. Exhaustion of the sugar agro-export model The sugar industry was for many years the key player of the national economy, where most of the investment and credit were concentrated and where most foreign exchange and tax revenues were generated. If production and sugar prices raised much, there were enough foreign exchange to import consumer goods for the population and inputs and techniques for businesses. In turn, the bank recovered loans and the government raised its revenue. In other words,…

Adam Smith with his remarkable writing of ‘Wealth of the Nations’ laid the foundation for a classical school of economics. The other economists, David Ricardo, Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Jean Baptiste Say, and others enriched the classical thorough of economics. Smith in his notable book argued that the wealth of a nation based on trade, but not on gold. The total wealth of a nation would increase when engaging in trade because both parties expect a profit, hence it would cause…

QUESTION 1(a) The general rule of profit maximization is that a firm produces up to the point where marginal revenue equals marginal cost. Marginal revenue can be simply defined as the change in total revenues as a result of an increase of one unit. Similarly Marginal cost on the other hand is the change in total cost as a result of an increase in one unit of production. As such maximize profits, as is the aim of all profit making businesses, is to produce and sell units provided the revenue…

The modern world is reign by excessive advertisement, products, and consumers that are drive to obtain the advertised products. This is how money in the economy flows and makes progress the country by increasing the positive welfare. Consumerism is a social and economical issue derived by the excess of consumption of goods and products that impacts a negative externality in the society. While people consume more and more products they end with earth´s natural resources, pollute, and leaves a…

Trade tends to shift the incidence of environmental effects. Trade geographically separates production from consumption. When environmental effects are national and not cross-border in their incidence and instead are mainly associated with production, trade may shift the environmental effects around the globe. In addition, where consumption produces waste that has become an important part of the ecological cycle (Example: When the nutrients are returned to the farmer’s fields in other words when…

Theory of consumer choice Consumer choice denotes the decision an individual will have to make on the products or services they wish to purchase. Theory of consumer choice thus analyses how individuals decide to spend their money keeping in mind their preferences as well as budget constraints. It assumes that people will want to maximize their utility through an optimal combination of goods that they can afford. This theory has three underlying assumptions: The first being utility maximization,…

Freakonomics is a book about the exploration of prominent issues in society and going against the conventional thinking in regards to these issues. The book declares connections between two topics that are normally not related to each other. For example, comparisons between sumo wrestlers and teachers are made that eventually connect back to economics, in this case incentives. Questions that are usually not asked are examined in the book using evidence; the questions talk about issues seemingly…

1.1 Overview of “The world is flat” by Thomas. L. Friedman Friedman has divided the globalization history into three important parts as Globalization 1.0(1492-1800), Globalization 2.0 (1800-2000) and Globalization 3.0 (2000 onwards) where the world shrank from large to medium (country globalization), medium to small (companies globalization) and small to tiny (individual globalization) respectively. The author has stated the 10 factors that have played a crucial role in flattening the world as…

Abstract The relationship between money and happiness is surprisingly weak, which may stem in part from the way people spend it. Drawing on empirical research, we propose several principles designed to help consumers get more happiness for their money. Specifically, we suggest that consumers should (1) buy more experiences and fewer material goods; (2) use their money to benefit others rather than themselves; (3) buy many small pleasures rather than fewer large ones; (4) spend more time with…