Some tips for writing economics essays Includes how to answer the question, including right diagrams and evaluation – primarily designed for A Level students. 1. Understand the question Make sure you understand the essential point of the question. If appropriate, you could try and rephrase the question into a simpler version. For example: Q. Examine the …
Technical efficiency is the effectiveness with which a given set of inputs is used to produce an output. A firm is said to be technically efficient if a firm is producing the maximum output from the minimum quantity of inputs, such as labour, capital, and technology. Technical efficiency requires no unemployment of resources. Given a …
A capitalist economic system is one characterised by free markets and the absence of government intervention in the economy. In practice a capitalist economy will need some government intervention, primarily to protect private property. (This is important to distinguish capitalism from anarchism, where there is absolutely no government present) Features of a capitalist economic system …
There are several features of eBay which make the market competitive – and perhaps close to the model of perfect competition. Many buyers – thousands of people have access to viewing items listed on eBay. If I sold it in traditional means, smaller numbers of buyers would mean lower prices for me the seller. There …
Elasticity is an important concept in economics. It is used to measure how responsive demand (or supply) is in response to changes in another variable (such as price). Price Elasticity of Demand The most common elasticity is price elasticity of demand. This measures how demand changes in response to a change in price. See: Price …
A niche product is a product targeting a specific section of a larger industry and market. Niche products are often (but not always) more expensive than more generic products. Because niche products are fulfilling a particular specialist demand, we find that demand tends to be more price inelastic. This enables a firm selling niche products …
Readers Question: Does government increases or decrease economic efficiency. Kindly explain as I have tried to look for the reasons. This is an open-ended question, which raises many different issues. To some, on the political right, it is a simple matter of governments bad, markets good. Others are apt to see the government as a …