UNDERSTANDING ECONOMICS
Important Information for Teachers and Students
CHAPTER ONE:NATURE AND SCOPE OF ECONOMICS
CHAPTER TWO: THE PRICE THEORY
CHAPTER THREE: PRODUCTION THEORY AND MARKET STRUCTURES
Introduction
Production Theory
Types of Production:
Levels of Production
Land, labour, and capital
Concept of Factor Pricing/Distribution Theory
Demand for a factor
Supply of a factor.
Factor rewards
Economic rent and Transfer earnings.
Interest
Profits
Factor Combination.
Relationship between TP, AP and MP.
The Law of Diminishing Returns.
Conditions under which the law applies.
Regions of the production function
Production periods
The law of variable proportions (short run analysis of production)
The law of diminishing returns
Assumptions of law of variable proportions
Causes of Initial Increasing returns
Causes of diminishing returns
Production function
The law of returns to scale
The theory of a firm
The theory of costs
The theory of revenue
The concept of market structures
CHAPTER FOUR: NATIONAL INCOME
CHAPTER FIVE: THE STRUCTURE OF UGANDA'S ECONOMY
CHAPTER SIX:ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
CHAPTER SEVEN:DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND CHOICE OF A DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
CHAPTER EIGHT:DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY
CHAPTER NINE: POPULATION AND LABOUR
CHAPTER TEN:EMPLOYMENT AND UNEMPLOYMENT
CHAPTER ELEVEN:MONEY AND BANKING
CHAPTER TWELVE:INFLATION
CHAPTER THIRTEEN:PUBLIC FINANCE AND FISCAL POLICY
CHAPTER FOURTEEN:THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN DEVELOPMENT.
Conditions under which the law applies.
There must be a fixed factor such as land or capital.
The time period must be short.
There must be a variable factor or production technique.
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