Ask an Economic Question

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I am looking to explain economic principles / ideas/ recent developments in economics. I can’t promise to answer, but will try if it meets the criteria below.

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  • I aim to try and simplify economics; as a rough guide, I would aim at an understanding similar to a good British A Level student.
  • I am looking to explain economic principles/ideas/ recent developments in economics.
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    • In the case in a developed country because that said country is likely to have more banks, traceable methods of payments and more information about that countries economy. It isn’t good in developing country because most of the trading is done through bartering meaning that information wont be collected because there isn’t a process to that method which would record that said purchase so GDP wont account that sort of selling and buying (bartering) meaning the GDP would be lowering then reality.

      *Also GDP per capita is the best way to measure living standards which is worked out by dividing the GDP by the population.

  1. Hi sir.Can you please advice me how to revise economics for a level.I’m very confused whenever I revise the next day I forget everything.Is there a way to overcome this.:(

  2. Explain why changes in GDP per capita and the Human Development Index are more insightful ways of measuring the rate at which standards of living are improving in China

  3. hie can you tell me which market structures does cooking oil and dertegents fall into with reason

  4. explain the following terms with the aid of diagrams:
    a) opportunity cost
    b) Price elasticity of Demand
    c) Diminishing marginal returns
    d) Income elasticity of demand
    would like to understand more about the terms

  5. Whether arc elasticity like point elasticity of demand can become elastic,perfectly elastic,inelastic,perfectly inelastic and unit elastic?

  6. Hi Sir….. why do you think a country would prefer to have a balance of payment surplus rather than deficit???

  7. Which of the following defines an economic model ?
    1.a nonliner relation
    2all other things remain the same
    3a simplilifed description of an economy
    4 all other things remain the same

  8. Could you give me some topics I could talk about in this question to get me started, would really help. Thank you.

    “Analyse the impact of the multiplier on the effectiveness of fiscal policy decisions”

    • Homework question!!! Read the article about how monetary/Fiscal policy works and then find out what stops each policy working to the max.

      For example in pull monetary stage interest rates would go up but however when the Bank of England sets the base rate ( the interest rate) banks (e.g. HSBC) can decide either to set as the base rate, meet half way and lower the Banks interest rate a little bit or completely ignore the base rate which would lead to the monetary policy’s effectiveness to lower.

  9. hi! which type of state is suited south Africa and why? capitalist state, pluralist state, patriarchal or leviathan state

  10. what are the important of government in regulation of monopoly

    how does goverment operate monopoly

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