Business Studies and Economics

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- Economics: the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services (Wikipedia).
- Business Studies: combines accountancy, economics, finance, marketing and organizational behaviour. (Wikipedia).

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About Business Studies and Economics

  • Business Studies - combines elements of accountancy, finance, marketing, organizational studies and economics.
  • Economics - social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics aims to explain how economies work and how economic agents interact. Economic analysis is applied in business, finance and government and throughout society.

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Why Study Economics? - questions about studying Economics at university: your ambitions, during your study, after you graduate, blog


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Game Theory

game theory and strategic thinking, dominance, backward induction, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stability, commitment, credibility, asymmetric information, adverse selection, signaling, examples drawn from economics, politics & movies
 

Financial Theory

role and the importance of the financial system in the global economy, financial equilibrium is studied as an extension of economic equilibrium, picture of the kind of thinking and analysis done by hedge funds

Communication technology and policy

diverse roles played by communication technologies in contemporary society and in the regulations and policies that govern the use of these technologies, both an Australian and an international perspective on these issues, social and policy implications of the digitisation of Australian (and international) telecommunications and broadcasting, Specific policy and technology themes and debates, media discourses of communication technology

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Economics hip-hop music video by John Papola and Russ Roberts at EconStories
 

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

brings computational exploration to the widest possible audience, open-code resource that uses dynamic computation to illuminate concepts, free player runs all demos: Browse Latest, Random Selection, FAQs, Authoring area

Managerial Psychology Laboratory

develop critical eye for making inferences from data, carry out simple data analysis, learn about managerial psychology, develop interesting new questions about managerial psychology and test these questions

Behavioral Economics and Finance

surveys research which incorporates psychological evidence into economics, prospect theory, biases in probabilistic judgment, self-control and mental accounting with implications for consumption and savings, fairness, altruism, and public goods contributions, financial market anomalies and theories, impact of markets, learning, and incentives, and memory, attention, categorization, and the thinking process

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