This document summarizes key concepts in socioeconomics and macroeconomics. It discusses how socioeconomics studies the interaction between economic and social factors, including social stratification, mobility, and classes. It also defines important macroeconomic topics like unemployment rates, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy. Unemployment, inflation, and output growth are three major concerns of macroeconomics. The document provides unemployment rate data for the Philippines and explanations of inflation, deflation, monetary expansion/contraction, and tools of fiscal policy like taxes and spending.
This document summarizes key concepts in socioeconomics and macroeconomics. It discusses how socioeconomics studies the interaction between economic and social factors, including social stratification, mobility, and classes. It also defines important macroeconomic topics like unemployment rates, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy. Unemployment, inflation, and output growth are three major concerns of macroeconomics. The document provides unemployment rate data for the Philippines and explanations of inflation, deflation, monetary expansion/contraction, and tools of fiscal policy like taxes and spending.
This document summarizes key concepts in socioeconomics and macroeconomics. It discusses how socioeconomics studies the interaction between economic and social factors, including social stratification, mobility, and classes. It also defines important macroeconomic topics like unemployment rates, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy. Unemployment, inflation, and output growth are three major concerns of macroeconomics. The document provides unemployment rate data for the Philippines and explanations of inflation, deflation, monetary expansion/contraction, and tools of fiscal policy like taxes and spending.
This document summarizes key concepts in socioeconomics and macroeconomics. It discusses how socioeconomics studies the interaction between economic and social factors, including social stratification, mobility, and classes. It also defines important macroeconomic topics like unemployment rates, inflation, monetary and fiscal policy. Unemployment, inflation, and output growth are three major concerns of macroeconomics. The document provides unemployment rate data for the Philippines and explanations of inflation, deflation, monetary expansion/contraction, and tools of fiscal policy like taxes and spending.
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Importance & Objectives
of socio-economics theories Presented to: Dr. Justo Anaguita, Instructor
By: Renante D. Deseo
Ph.D. Student Background /evolution of socioeconomics What is Socioeconomics (also known as social economics) is the social science that studies how economic activity affects and is shaped by social processes.
In general it analyzes how societies progress,
stagnate, or regress because of their local or regional economy, or the global economy. Started in human evolution
Social stratefication Social mobility
Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households,
or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. It is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society. The working group
The social group consisting of people who are employed for
wages, especially in manual or industrial work. The lowest social stratum in a country or community, consisting of the poor and unemployed. "they are an underclass who lack any stake in popular capitalism and who are caught in the dependency culture" White collar class
A white-collar worker is a person who performs professional, managerial, or
administrative work. ... Other types of work are those of a blue-collar worker, whose job requires manual labor and a pink-collar worker, whose labor is related to customer interaction, entertainment, sales, or other service-oriented work. Bourgeoisie
a sociologically defined class, especially in contemporary times, referring to people with a
certain cultural and financial capital belonging to the middle or upper middle class: the upper (haute), middle (moyenne), and petty (petite) bourgeoisie (which are collectively designated "the bourgeoisie"); an affluent and often wealthy stratum of the middle class who stand opposite the proletariat class. Is studying socioeconomics important?
Most important it is often, the pursuit of
the single goal of maximizing income growth that causes the social problems in question. ... It may also result in a deteriorating physical environment and in a social environment that causes social unrest that ultimately destroys the fruits of economic growth. WHAT IS THEORY?
• a set of principles on which the practice
of an activity is based.
• an idea used to account for a situation or
justify a course of action. Differentiate theory from postulate.
Postulate is something assumed without
proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a basis for an argument while;
Theory is (obsolete) mental conception;
reflection, consideration. Microeconomics analyzes basic elements in the economy, including individual agents and markets, their interactions, and the outcomes of interactions. Individual agents may include, for example, households, firms, buyers, and seller. What is Macroeconomics? • Macro economics deals with total or aggregate level of output, aggregate level of consumption, aggregate level of investment, aggregate level of employment and general price level in economy. Macroeconomics Income and Output. One of the most important concepts of macroeconomics is income and output. ... Unemploymen Some Basic Concepts of Macroeconomics
Another. important component of macroeconomics is unemployment. ...
Inflation and Deflation. ... Monetary Policy. ... Fiscal Policy. Three of the major concerns of macroeconomics are: Unemployment – Inflation – Output growth 1. Unemployment Unemployment refers to the situation where the population of a country do not find work to earn their livelihood. Unemployment rate of the Phil. Calendar GMT Actual Previous Consensus TEForecast 2018-06-05 01:00 AM Unemploym 5.5% 5.3% 5.4% ent Rate 2018-09-05 02:00 AM Unemploym 5.4% 5.5% 5.4% ent Rate 2018-12-05 01:00 AM Unemploym 5.1% 5.4% 5.3% ent Rate 2019-03-07 02:00 AM Unemploym 5.2% 5.1% 5% ent Rate 2019-06-05 02:00 AM Unemploym 5.2% 5.50% ent Rate 2019-09-05 02:00 AM Unemploym 5.30% ent Rate 2019-12-05 02:00 AM Unemploym 5.40% ent Rate INFLATION AND DEFLATION Inflation occurs when the prices of goods and services rise, while deflation occurs when those prices decrease. The balance between the two economic conditions, opposite sides of the same coin, is delicate and an economy can quickly swing from one condition to the other. MONETARY POLICY Monetary policy is the process by which the monetary authority of a country, typically the central bank or currency board, controls either the cost of very short-term borrowing or the money supply, often targeting inflation or the interest rate to ensure price stability and general trust in the currency. Monetary policy Monetary policy is referred to as being either expansionary or contractionary. Expansionary policy occurs when a monetary authority uses its tools to stimulate the economy. An expansionary policy maintains short-term interest rates at a lower than usual rate or increases the total supply of money in the economy more rapidly than usual. It is traditionally used to try to combat unemployment in a recession by lowering interest rates in the hope that less expensive credit will entice businesses into expanding. This increases aggregate demand (the overall demand for all goods and services in an economy), which boosts short- term growth as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Expansionary monetary policy usually diminishes the value of the currency relative to other currencies (the exchange rate).[5] Fiscal Policy
Fiscal policy is the means by which a
government adjusts its spending levels and tax rates to monitor and influence a nation's economy. It is the sister strategy to monetary policy through which a central bank influences a nation's money supply. Tools of Fiscal Policy The two main tools of fiscal policy are taxes and spending. Taxes influence the economy by determining how much money the government has to spend in certain areas and how much money individuals should spend. THE THEORY OF INTERSTELLAR
In Earth's future, a global crop blight and second Dust Bowl
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