دانلود کتاب OCR-GCSE-(9-1) – اقتصاد – چاپ دوم

This book has been especially written to accompany the OCR GCSE economics course. Starting this GCSE course can be an exciting new challenge for you as a student. Economics is the study of how choices are made in the use of scarce resources to provide goods and services. At the beginning of an economics course, you are not expected to know about the economy in detail, as this is a new subject and it is different in many important respects from others you may have previously studied. However, it won’t all be new to you. Economics is largely about people and their economic choices. It is all around us and relates to every aspect of our lives – we are all part of the economy. Therefore, although it may be a new subject of study, you have experience of economics in your day-to-day life. The economy is the state of a country or region in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services. So we often refer, for example, to the UK economy and to the global economy. You are already a member of one of the main groups in the economy – you are a consumer. You buy goods and services every day, so that makes you an important part of the economy! When you decide what to spend your money on, you are making an economic decision. When you are in your economics class, you are a consumer, as you are consuming the service of education. In the future, you will probably be a worker and earn an income from selling your services. You may even be your own boss (an entrepreneur perhaps), making decisions that will affect your business and profits. During this economics course, you will appreciate that consumers, producers and governments make economic decisions that affect every one of us as an individual. As economics is a real-life subject, it will help if you become interested in the economic issues of your own country, and in the world as a whole. Economic issues and situations make daily news. Therefore, it would be a good idea to read or listen to the news once a day, as you will be able to identify issues that you are studying on this course.