Economics

Author: Zhang Qifu
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Economics is a social science that explains human (economic) behavior and (economic) phenomena. With the continuous development of economic theory, contemporary economics has greatly surpassed its traditional scope of explanation and analysis. Gary Becker, a Nobel laureate in Economics, pointed out that economic research has entered its third phase. "In the stage, people believed that economics was limited to studying the production and consumption structure of material resources; in the second stage, the scope of economic theory expanded to comprehensively study commodity phenomena, i.e., studying monetary exchange relationships; today, the field of economic research has already encompassed all human behavior and related decisions." This book is part of the 21st-century vocational college and higher vocational investment and financial management series textbooks. It is an introductory economics textbook for vocational college students, retaining the basic theoretical framework of modern economics. Considering that most vocational college students have strong application skills but weak theoretical foundations, to better stimulate their interest in learning, this textbook reduces the difficulty of theory, combines the current socio-economic development of China, and uses numerous cases, graphs, and tables. The purpose is to guide students to use economic theory to explain and analyze people's (economic) behavior and social (economic) phenomena, thereby improving their decision-making skills in their careers and laying a solid foundation for their professional development.