Основы экономических знаний (английский язык) (90,00 руб.)

Рекомендуются для аудиторной и самостоятельной работы студентов, продолжающих изучать экономические дисциплины. <...> Reading Practice Read and translate the following text. <...> Text: THE CORE OF ECONOMICS You make decisions every day that capture the essence of economics. <...> Would you work hours at your part-time job? <...> Two fundamental facts together constitute the economizing problem and provide a foundation for the field of economics: 1.Society's material wants, that is, the material wants of its citizens and institutions, are virtually unlimited and insatiable. 2.Economic resources — the means of producing goods and services — are limited or scarce. <...> Innumerable products sometimes classified as necessities (food, shelter, and clothing) and luxuries (perfumes, yachts, race cars) can satisfy human wants. <...> Repair work on a car, the removal of an inflamed appendix, legal and accounting advice, and haircuts and hair styling all satisfy human wants. <...> Actually, we buy many goods, such as automobiles and washing machines, for the services they render. <...> In stating the second fundamental fact — economic resources are limited or scarce — what do we mean by economic resources? <...> In general, we mean all natural, human, and manufactured resources which go into the production of goods and services. <...> Economists broadly classify these as either a) property resources — land, or raw materials, and capital; or b) human resources — labour and entrepreneurial ability. «Wants» also include the desires of businesses and units of government to satisfy material goals. <...> Businesses want factory buildings, machinery, trucks, warehouses, communication systems, and other things that help them achieve their production goals. <...> Government, reflecting the collective wants of its citizenry or goals of its own, seeks highways, mass transit systems, schools, and military equipment. <...> Our desires 4 for a particular good or service can be satisfied; over a short period of time we can surely get enough toothpaste or pasta. <...> Suppose all members of society were asked to list the goods and services they would buy if they had unlimited income. <...> Not long ago, we did not want personal computers, Internet service, video recorders, fax machines, and compact discs <...>