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What does microeconomics analyze?
What does microeconomics analyze?
- The broad distinctions between positive economics and normative economics
- The economy as a system where production, consumption, saving, and investment interact
- Factors affecting employment of the resources of labour, capital, and land
- Individual agents and markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions (correct)
What does macroeconomics analyze?
What does macroeconomics analyze?
- The economy as a system where production, consumption, saving, and investment interact, and factors affecting it (correct)
- The broad distinctions between positive economics and normative economics
- Individual agents and markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions
- Factors affecting employment of the resources of labour, capital, and land
What are the broad distinctions within economics?
What are the broad distinctions within economics?
- Economic theory and applied economics
- Rational economics and behavioural economics
- Individual agents and markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions
- Positive economics and normative economics (correct)
What does positive economics describe?
What does positive economics describe?
What does normative economics advocate?
What does normative economics advocate?
What does microeconomics primarily analyze?
What does microeconomics primarily analyze?
What are the main subjects of macroeconomics?
What are the main subjects of macroeconomics?
Which distinction within economics relates to 'what ought to be'?
Which distinction within economics relates to 'what ought to be'?
What is the focus of behavioural economics?
What is the focus of behavioural economics?
Which area of economics examines the outcomes of interactions between individual agents and markets?
Which area of economics examines the outcomes of interactions between individual agents and markets?