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Introducing Economics

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  • Xuraman Memmedovahar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Economics, and money itself, are also based on the Pythagorean idea that all things can be reduced to number.
  • Xuraman Memmedovahar citeretfor 5 år siden
    enlightened. “Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters – pain and pleasure … The principle of utility recognizes this subjection, and assumes it for the foundation of that system, the object of which is to rear the fabric of felicity by the hands of reason and of law.”
  • Xuraman Memmedovahar citeretfor 5 år siden
    The philosopher David Hume later pointed out that it was in any case impossible to maintain a constantly positive balance of trade. A surplus of exports would result in more money entering the country, which would increase money supply, which would cause inflation. Prices would rise, resulting in fewer exports.
  • Xuraman Memmedovahar citeretfor 5 år siden
    For example, an apple on a tree is of no use to anyone. But by picking it, a worker mixes his or her labour with the apple, thus giving it value.
    His labour hath taken it out of the hands of nature … and hath thereby appropriated to himself.

    The job of the government is not to assign these natural property rights, but to protect them. This is Locke’s idea of the social contract.
  • Xuraman Memmedovahar citeretfor 5 år siden
    Reason in man is rather like God in the world
  • Anna Medvidhar citeretfor 3 år siden
    Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and trading goods for profit
  • Anna Medvidhar citeretfor 3 år siden
    Economics is the study of how goods and services are produced, distributed, and consumed by society
  • natashadushkohar citeretfor 3 år siden
    The Pythagoreans believed that all things were composed of number. Each number had a special, almost magical significance.
  • natashadushkohar citeretfor 3 år siden
    His school grew into what amounts to a pseudo-religious cult, based on the worship of number. The Pythagoreans were highly secretive and left no written documents, so we only know about them indirectly
  • Kiran Morehar citeretfor 4 år siden
    The law of economic gravity
    In a competitive market, if a particular good were too expensive, then more suppliers would enter the market, supply would increase, and competition would drive the price down. If the price were too low, then suppliers would go broke or leave the market, and the price would go up.
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