Economics and the Business Manager
What Is Economics All About?
Mention the word economist and one conjures up a vision of an academic who scours over macroeconomic data and utilizes sophisticated statistical techniques to make forecasts. Indeed, many economists do just that. But some people may be surprised to learn that economics is a social science, not a business science. Like psychology, sociology, anthropology, and the other social sciences, economics studies human behavior. That includes consumer behavior, firm behavior, and the behavior of markets.
In its simplest form, economics is a study of how human beings behave when they cannot be in two places at the same time. If you take a job that requires extensive travel, the income ...
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