LEAD-IN
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 402.
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood.
Unit 1. What is economics?
| TEXT A: What is economics? TEXT B: What economics isn't TEXT C: Micro, macro and fantasy economics BUSINESS COMMUNICATION: Introductions GRAMMAR: Present Tenses. The Present Simple and the Present Continuous Tenses |
John Maynard Keynes (1883 – 1946),
a British economist
1. The dictionary defines economics as “the study of the production of wealth and the consumption of goods and services in a society”. List five economic issues relating to production and consumption that your national or local government has to deal with today.
2. Why do you think everyone should understand basic economics?
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