Understanding Commerce

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What are the principal factors that give rise to commercial exchanges?

  • Uniform distribution of resources and lack of division of labour
  • Homogeneous human needs and wants
  • Diversity in the distribution of natural resources, differences of human needs and wants, and division of labour along with comparative advantage (correct)
  • Low demand and high supply of goods and services

What does commerce consist of?

  • Transportation and communication only
  • Only domestic trade
  • Import and export activities
  • Trade and aids to trade along the entire supply chain (correct)

What is trade categorized into?

  • Local trade and online marketplaces
  • Retail trade only
  • Inter-regional transactions only
  • Domestic trade and foreign trade (correct)

What are aids to trade or auxiliary commercial activities?

<p>Commercial intermediaries, banking and financial services, transportation, packaging, warehousing, communication, advertising and insurance (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does trade involve?

<p>Exchange of goods (including raw materials, intermediate and finished goods) and services between buyers and sellers in return for a price at traditional (or online) marketplaces (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does microeconomics primarily analyze?

<p>Individual agents and markets (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the main focus of macroeconomics?

<p>The economy as a system and its interactions (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What distinguishes positive economics from normative economics?

<p>'What is' versus 'what ought to be' (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where can economic analysis be applied throughout society?

<p>Business, finance, cybersecurity, and government (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what ways is economics applied beyond traditional economic subjects?

<p>Crime, education, family, law, politics, religion, science, and the environment (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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