What is economics and what do economists do?

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  • Опубліковано 26 січ 2016
  • In this short introduction to the discipline of economics, Dr. Pete Schuhmann presents a basic overview of the fundamental issues of interest to economists and how they study those issues. He defines economics as the study of how people deal with scarcity and distribute scarce resources. He highlights the two broad branches of economics, macro and micro, and explains that macroeconomics focuses on the study of the entire economy at the national and international scales, while microeconomics looks at individual and firm-level decision-making and dynamics. He notes that economists use key concepts like opportunity cost to understand trade-offs and decision-making, and that questions of interest for economists arise by thinking at the margin.
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  • @BramSarjana
    @BramSarjana 3 роки тому +21

    A great way in explaining the complexity economics in a way simple way. Make it easy to understand

  • @lavendela9403
    @lavendela9403 5 років тому +23

    Love the simple forest example about macro & micro economics.

  • @edeline9364
    @edeline9364 9 місяців тому

    I love his teaching style and this is the first time I'm watching him,

  • @eishaayub3429
    @eishaayub3429 7 років тому +7

    Thank you for uploading this !

  • @kopilalimbu6725
    @kopilalimbu6725 5 років тому +4

    Thank yuh sO much for wounderful explain

  • @ashnabali5013
    @ashnabali5013 6 років тому +7

    Informative and interesting!

  • @kalebtomas260
    @kalebtomas260 3 роки тому +2

    Thanks so much for good explantion, am kalib from Ethiopia, am economics student!

  • @ferdieichhorn2911
    @ferdieichhorn2911 Рік тому

    THANK YOU GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND YOUR LOVED ONES

  • @rajivguchidakme4217
    @rajivguchidakme4217 5 років тому +5

    Thank you sir....great

  • @daeviontaylor
    @daeviontaylor 2 роки тому +8

    I am fascinated with economics, hopefully the honeymooning doesn’t stop when I’m mid course

    • @michelangelope830
      @michelangelope830 2 роки тому

      It is life or death important that humanity understand that the gold market is going to crash. Gold mining would stop destroying the planet, Russia could bankrupt and end the war in Ukraine, and fortunes would not be squandered. What can be done with the gold in reserves, that are useless inside a vault, like in the Fort Knox in America? Only to sell it. How much cost taxpayers to protect the gold? Fortunes. To sell the gold today spares to pay for the protection tomorrow. If an innocent kid received 5 sweets as pocket money every week and had 1 gram of gold protected inside a vault that could sell for 100 sweets but the protection of the mineral would cost him 1 sweet a week, when would the kid sell?

    • @deadbabyjokes5319
      @deadbabyjokes5319 Рік тому

      same! do you have any book or name to recomend?

  • @tickedoffsheikh8587
    @tickedoffsheikh8587 2 роки тому +2

    what are the essential books for first economics students?

  • @janasafieddine
    @janasafieddine 6 років тому +21

    well im 9 years old and my brother is 19 and his studying economics

  • @anzelaaasworld5632
    @anzelaaasworld5632 2 роки тому +1

    Perfect explainig from professor!

  • @mazhriqballmazhriiqballl5338
    @mazhriqballmazhriiqballl5338 6 років тому +2

    Great

  • @manan2724
    @manan2724 4 роки тому

    Thanku sir

  • @Supersmedicatedworld
    @Supersmedicatedworld 2 роки тому +3

    Tell me why I just smoked a fat doobie and went down the UA-cam rabbit hole and ended up watching an economics lecture 😂

  • @kentheengineer592
    @kentheengineer592 Рік тому

    Scarcity is An Issue of The Utility of Built Systems & Process Engineering

  • @geovannaferreirat
    @geovannaferreirat 4 роки тому +2

    I'm gonna use it for my essay

  • @subrotochatterjee5788
    @subrotochatterjee5788 4 роки тому +2

    The way I see it is that the vacuum and the falling objects are predictable phenomena. The leaves falling during a windy day is not. Economics is not an exact predictable science. There are numerous incidences in history that bear testimony to this fact: The Great Depression, the financial bubbles from wall Street, etc. experts notwithstanding.

  • @rominacommey4905
    @rominacommey4905 2 роки тому

    I love it ❤️❤️

  • @psikeyhackr6914
    @psikeyhackr6914 3 роки тому

    They rationalize and justify the economic power game as designed and evolved by European culture. The economic wargame is a continuation of the military wargame by other means.
    They ignore the depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods. How many automobiles have American consumers trashed since Sputnik?
    Running a planet of 7 billion people on defective algebra makes so much sense.

  • @manasikulkarni7637
    @manasikulkarni7637 2 роки тому

    Excellent video

  • @talicatinai2637
    @talicatinai2637 3 роки тому +2

    Where can I buy Mr Greenspan's book , " How to Sabotage the Wealth of any Country ?

  • @oziomamercy4443
    @oziomamercy4443 5 років тому +2

    Economics also help in an industry.

  • @clarestucki5151
    @clarestucki5151 Рік тому

    There are no 'classical' (true) economists of the Adam Smith mold around today. Contemporary "economists" ar all political economists, not concerned with achieving maximum outputs with minimum inputs. but only concerned with how outputs are redistributed once they are produced.

  • @a..indiangirl4106
    @a..indiangirl4106 3 роки тому

    Amazing, superb . 😇😇😇

  • @kentheengineer592
    @kentheengineer592 Рік тому

    Humans Reuse Food & Fluids All The Time the Difference Has to Do woth Comparing the Velocity of the transformation of resources to and from the lifecycle of a closed loop system

  • @perseveranceoverpower
    @perseveranceoverpower Рік тому

    well, I’m usually not one to critique very small things but definitions are particularly important to me. I don’t necessarily have an issue with this definition of economics, but I think it uses unnecessary words. Simply calling it the scientific study of human action is a better way of doing it because all purposeful action already involves scarcity. It’s presupposed by the very fact that action even exists.

  • @aa-dw8ws
    @aa-dw8ws 5 років тому +2

    Yeet, thx m8 👍

  • @yicancu56
    @yicancu56 5 років тому +2

    I don't understand the quote about how economists solve problems like leaves falling in a vacuum. Can someone elaborate on this please? The quote is at about 5:25

    • @mechwarrior52
      @mechwarrior52 5 років тому +19

      In the vacuum. There is no wind. Therefore it's really easy to predict where the leaf will fall. But outside in a windy day there are so many factors influencing the fall of the leaf which makes it hard to predict where the leaf will land. The vacuum is the theory world of economics and the windy day is the real world. That is how I interpret it.

    • @yicancu56
      @yicancu56 5 років тому +1

      @@mechwarrior52 Ah makes sense. Thank you to the 4 years of UofT economics as that phrase just went right over my head.

    • @muhammedsbah8510
      @muhammedsbah8510 4 роки тому

      Thanks a lot for the lectures

    • @trajith
      @trajith 4 роки тому

      This shows an extra vision of economics. Think deeply and solve problems at the grassroot level

  • @MegaAnoop
    @MegaAnoop 3 роки тому

    Extremely super guru

  • @JasonGafar
    @JasonGafar 4 роки тому

    He's so funny.

  • @janasafieddine
    @janasafieddine 6 років тому +2

    and love this video

  • @amanvijayjindal5742
    @amanvijayjindal5742 Рік тому

    Every resource is scarce

  • @78Piovesan
    @78Piovesan 4 роки тому

    Economists DO have experiments (lab, field, internet, natural, etc.)

    • @emmanuelameyaw6806
      @emmanuelameyaw6806 3 роки тому +4

      Yh... micro experiments. But he was talking about the economy...thus, macroeconomics as he used the term, 'economy'. We don't have controls experiments in macro as there are no controlled economies to perform counterfactual analysis as we do, for example, in developement and applied economics using RCTs

  • @trezhhh
    @trezhhh 26 днів тому

    All (we) care about is food the main distribution.
    How did we get to the point of famine
    How do we get food to grow for large population

    • @trezhhh
      @trezhhh 26 днів тому

      How do we organize

    • @trezhhh
      @trezhhh 26 днів тому

      When I break down economics I get they eco system and money
      How to make money off our ecosystem
      & How to regulate it

  • @saulgerardoaristasanchez460
    @saulgerardoaristasanchez460 2 роки тому

    estoy aqui porque me lo encargaron los del ceu

  • @kevinXD71
    @kevinXD71 2 роки тому

    started well but then got off the way

  • @gregoryillinivich5328
    @gregoryillinivich5328 4 роки тому +4

    its a whole lot of nothing

  • @emmanuelameyaw9735
    @emmanuelameyaw9735 3 місяці тому

    Funny 😂😂.

  • @nagarajkuragayala1621
    @nagarajkuragayala1621 3 роки тому

    Very baddddd

  • @tusharchandra5717
    @tusharchandra5717 Рік тому

    This Man seems very anxious

  • @eishaayub3429
    @eishaayub3429 7 років тому +4

    Thank you for uploading this !

    • @rosetteyakoto3070
      @rosetteyakoto3070 2 роки тому

      Economics is what economists do 👌 I like this definition. Thank you Dr Pete