Category Economy

Economics is the discipline that studies how people respond to scarcity, i.e., the observed fact that individuals desire more than they already possess, whether the object of their desire is wealth, health, education, security, or some other intangible good or service. An economy can be viewed as a social mechanism that emerges when individuals cooperate with others in order to deal with the problem of scarcity. It is a vast network of individuals (and institutions guided by individuals) that make, barter, sell, and buy goods and services in order to achieve their desired ends.

Economic forces are at work virtually any time exchanges occur or resources are used. A knowledge of economic principles—fundamental truths identifying patterns or components of economic cause and effect—is essential for understanding phenomena such as prices, markets, commerce, employment, industrial output, economic growth and prosperity, and business fluctuations. The economic way of thinking (including the recognition of incentives, constraints, opportunity costs, transactions costs, and self-interested motives) is also useful for the study of non-market phenomena such as government regulations, elections, lobbying, and government decision making.

Comedy of Errors Has European Farmers Fuming

Farmers in a number of European nations—together with France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Romania—are livid once more, protesting in opposition to their neighbors, the European Union, the US, Canada, Australia, China, Brazil, and different non-European nations. They’re mad on the…

California’s Proposition 1 May Be an Enchancment if Extra Reforms Comply with

Proposition 1, the only statewide poll measure dealing with California voters on March 5, goals to enhance entry to behavioral well being providers. It is only one half of what is going to have to be a multifaceted strategy to…

Two Birds of a Fiscal Feather

For a few years, controversies about property taxes and lease administration have been near the best of the document of state and native authorities disputes. Proposition 13 and the alternative efforts to limit property taxes that it impressed are a…

Saudi Arabia Goes for Transformative Hat Trick

I simply recently traveled by means of parts of Saudi Arabia—from Riyadh, the capital, to Jeddah on the Crimson Sea (the gateway to Islam’s holy cities, Mecca and Medina), after which by means of the northwestern desert as far as…