What is economics and what do economists do?

Ғылым және технология

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
    @BramSarjana3 жыл бұрын

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

  • @lavendela9403
    @lavendela94035 жыл бұрын

    Love the simple forest example about macro & micro economics.

  • @edeline9364
    @edeline93649 ай бұрын

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

  • @eishaayub3429
    @eishaayub34297 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for uploading this !

  • @kopilalimbu6725
    @kopilalimbu67255 жыл бұрын

    Thank yuh sO much for wounderful explain

  • @ashnabali5013
    @ashnabali50136 жыл бұрын

    Informative and interesting!

  • @kalebtomas260
    @kalebtomas2603 жыл бұрын

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

  • @tickedoffsheikh8587
    @tickedoffsheikh85872 жыл бұрын

    what are the essential books for first economics students?

  • @rajivguchidakme4217
    @rajivguchidakme42175 жыл бұрын

    Thank you sir....great

  • @ferdieichhorn2911
    @ferdieichhorn2911 Жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND YOUR LOVED ONES

  • @daeviontaylor
    @daeviontaylor2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @michelangelope830

    @michelangelope830

    2 жыл бұрын

    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

    Жыл бұрын

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

  • @anzelaaasworld5632
    @anzelaaasworld56322 жыл бұрын

    Perfect explainig from professor!

  • @rominacommey4905
    @rominacommey49052 жыл бұрын

    I love it ❤️❤️

  • @mazhriqballmazhriiqballl5338
    @mazhriqballmazhriiqballl53386 жыл бұрын

    Great

  • @manan2724
    @manan27244 жыл бұрын

    Thanku sir

  • @geovannaferreirat
    @geovannaferreirat4 жыл бұрын

    I'm gonna use it for my essay

  • @talicatinai2637
    @talicatinai26373 жыл бұрын

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

  • @amykay2292

    @amykay2292

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'd wanna know too

  • @janasafieddine
    @janasafieddine6 жыл бұрын

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

  • @BigBaibars

    @BigBaibars

    2 жыл бұрын

    ok

  • @manasikulkarni7637
    @manasikulkarni76372 жыл бұрын

    Excellent video

  • @Supersmedicatedworld
    @Supersmedicatedworld2 жыл бұрын

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

  • @a..indiangirl4106
    @a..indiangirl41062 жыл бұрын

    Amazing, superb . 😇😇😇

  • @kentheengineer592
    @kentheengineer592 Жыл бұрын

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

  • @subrotochatterjee5788
    @subrotochatterjee57884 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @psikeyhackr6914
    @psikeyhackr69143 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @clarestucki5151
    @clarestucki5151 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @oziomamercy4443
    @oziomamercy44435 жыл бұрын

    Economics also help in an industry.

  • @MegaAnoop
    @MegaAnoop3 жыл бұрын

    Extremely super guru

  • @janasafieddine
    @janasafieddine6 жыл бұрын

    and love this video

  • @aa-dw8ws
    @aa-dw8ws5 жыл бұрын

    Yeet, thx m8 👍

  • @yicancu56
    @yicancu565 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    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 жыл бұрын

    @@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 жыл бұрын

    Thanks a lot for the lectures

  • @trajith

    @trajith

    4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @perseveranceoverpower
    @perseveranceoverpower Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @JasonGafar
    @JasonGafar4 жыл бұрын

    He's so funny.

  • @amanvijayjindal5742
    @amanvijayjindal5742 Жыл бұрын

    Every resource is scarce

  • @kentheengineer592
    @kentheengineer592 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @saulgerardoaristasanchez460
    @saulgerardoaristasanchez4602 жыл бұрын

    estoy aqui porque me lo encargaron los del ceu

  • @trezhhh
    @trezhhh20 күн бұрын

    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

    20 күн бұрын

    How do we organize

  • @trezhhh

    @trezhhh

    20 күн бұрын

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

  • @78Piovesan
    @78Piovesan4 жыл бұрын

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

  • @emmanuelameyaw6806

    @emmanuelameyaw6806

    3 жыл бұрын

    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

  • @kevinXD71
    @kevinXD712 жыл бұрын

    started well but then got off the way

  • @gregoryillinivich5328
    @gregoryillinivich53284 жыл бұрын

    its a whole lot of nothing

  • @emmanuelameyaw9735
    @emmanuelameyaw97353 ай бұрын

    Funny 😂😂.

  • @nagarajkuragayala1621
    @nagarajkuragayala16213 жыл бұрын

    Very baddddd

  • @tusharchandra5717
    @tusharchandra5717 Жыл бұрын

    This Man seems very anxious

  • @eishaayub3429
    @eishaayub34297 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for uploading this !

  • @rosetteyakoto3070

    @rosetteyakoto3070

    2 жыл бұрын

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

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