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Economics

The study of economics focuses on how people, organizations, and countries decide how to divide up resources. Our online economics tutoring program at Tutorwaves is made to assist students in comprehending macro and microeconomics in an understandable, interesting, and useful manner. Our one-on-one classes are customized to meet your learning goals, whether you are getting ready for competitive exams, school or university exams, or simply want to increase your economic literacy.
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Economics
Basic Concepts

Study of resources, production, scarcity, decision making etc. Deals with topics like wealth, finance, recession, banking, productivity, and many more. A wide discipline of study that allows us to answer many questions like how will certain decisions affect the standard of living of the people?; and other questions around changes in the economy with automation, impact of weather on the economy and the stock market, and what not?

  • Micro and Macro Economics
  • Economic problem: Scarce Resources, Unlimited wants having alternative uses
  • Problem of Choice
  • Economic System: What, How and for whom to produce
  • Opportunity Cost and Trade Offs
  • Production Possibility Curve
  • Absolute Advantage, Comparative Advantage, Specialization and Trade
  • Property Rights and role of Incentives
  • Marginal Analysis

(1) Demand and Supply: How Market works

  • Demand and Supply
  • Determinants of Demand and Supply
  • Law of Demand and Supply
  • Movement along the Curves and Shifts in the Curve
  • Elasticity
  • Price, Income and Cross Elasticity of Demand
  • Price Elasticity of Supply
  • Market equilibrium
  • Role of Government: Price and Quality control, price ceiling and price floor

 

(2) Evaluating Wellness of Consumers and Producers

  • Consumers Surplus
  • Producers Surplus
  • Allocation  Efficiency
  • Tax Incidence and Deadweight Loss

 

(3) Theory of Consumer Choice

  • Concept of Utility, Total Utility and Marginal Utility
  • Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility
  • Individual and market Demand Curves
  • Reasons of Law

 

(4) Production and Cost

  • Factors of production
  • Production Function: short and Long Run
  • Theory  of production-Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
  • Short and Long Run Cost
  • Relationship between Productivity and Cost
  • Economies and Diseconomies of Scale
  • Cost Minimizing Input Combination and Productive Efficiency

 

(5) Firm Behavior and Market Structure

      – Profits

  • Accounting Vs Economic Profits
  • Normal Profit
  • Profit Maximization Rule: MR=MC

 

    – Perfect Competition

  • Features of Perfect Competition
  • Nature of Demand and Marginal Revenue Curve
  • Profit Maximization
  • Short Run Supply and Shutdown Decision
  • Efficiency and Perfect Competition

 

    – Monopolistic Competition

  • Features of Monopolistic Competition
  • Nature of Demand Curve and Marginal Revenue Curve
  • Profit Maximization
  • Product Differentiation and Role of Advertising
  • Excess Capacity and Inefficiency

 

    – Monopoly

  • Features Of Monopoly
  • Nature of Demand Curve and Marginal Revenue Curve
  • Profit Maximization
  • Inefficiency of Monopoly
  • Price Discrimination
  • Concept Of Natural Monopoly

 

    – Oligopoly

  • Features of Oligopoly
  • Interdependence, Collusion and Cartels
  • Game Theory and Dominant Strategy
  • Nash Equilibrium

 

(6) Factor market

  • Demand  and Supply of Factors
  • Derived factor Demand
  • Marginal Revenue Product
  • Hiring Decisions in market for Labor and Capital

 

(7) Market Failure and Role of Government

    – Externalities

  • Marginal Social Benefit and Marginal Social Cost
  • Positive Externalities
  • Negative Externalities
  • Remedies

 

    – Public Goods

  • Public Versus Private Goods
  • Provision of Public Goods

 

     –  Public Policy to promote Competition

  • Antitrust Policy
  • Regulation

      

     – Income Distribution

  • Equity
  • Sources and Measures of Income Inequality
  • Lorenz Curve and Ginni Coefficient

(1)  National Income Accounting

  • Circular flow of Income(Four Sector Model)
  • Gross Domestic Product/National Income
  • Gross Domestic Product as a Measure of Economic Performance
  • Nominal Versus Real Gross Domestic Product
  • Estimation of GDP and its Components

 

(2)  Business Cycle

  • Phases of Business Cycle and Economic Fluctuations

 

(3)  Inflation

  • Price Indices: Consumer Price Index and GDP Deflator
  • Nominal and Real values
  • Inflation and its types: Demand Pull and Cost Push Inflation
  • Concept of Disinflation, Hyperinflation, Deflation, Stagflation
  • Costs of Inflation

 

(4)  Foreign exchange rate

  • Demand and Supply of Foreign Exchange
  • Exchange Rate determination
  • Currency Appreciation and Depreciations
  • Effect of Currency Appreciation and Depreciation on Exports and Imports

 

(5) Balance of Payment Accounts

  • Balance of trade
  • Balance of Payments
  • Current Account and Capital Account(also called Financial Account)
  • Trade Barriers

 

(6)  Unemployment

  • Definition and Measurement of Unemployment
  • Causes of Unemployment
  • Types of Unemployment
  • Natural Rate of Unemployment

 

(7) National Income and Price Determination

  – Aggregate Demand

  • Determinants of Aggregate Demand
  • Multiplier and Crowding- Out Effects

 

  – Aggregate Supply

  • Determinants of Aggregate Supply
  • Sticky Versus Flexible wages and Prices

       

  – Macroeconomic Equilibrium

  • Real Output and Price Level
  • Short and Long Run
  • Actual Versus Full Employment Output

 

  – Financial Sector

       Money, Banking and Financial Market

  • Definition of Financial Assets: Money, Stock and Bonds
  • Money Supply and its Measures
  • Money Demand
  • Banks and Creation of Money using T Accounts
  • Money Multiplier
  • Money market Equilibrium and Equilibrium Nominal Interest Rate

 

   – Loanable Fund Market

  • Demand and Supply of Loanable Funds
  • Equilibrium Real Interest Rate
  • Crowding Out

    

  – Central Banking Policy

  • Tools of Central Bank Policy and their impact on Money Supply
  • Quantity Theory Of Money
  • Nominal and Real Interest Rate

 

(9) Stabilization Policy

 – Fiscal and Monetary Policies

  • Demand- side effects
  • Supply- Side Effects
  • Government Deficits and Phillips Curve
  • Short Run and Long Run Phillips Curve
  • Trade off Between Inflation and Unemployment

 

(10) Economic Growth

  • Meaning Of Economic growth
  • Determinants of Economic Growth
  • Investment in Human Capital
  • Investment in Physical Capital
  • Research and Development and Technological Progress
  • Growth Policy
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