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Economics notes
Free study notes for Economics (BA) students in India: 50 topics across 7 subjects - Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, International economics, Indian economy, Development, public and environmental economics, Quantitative methods and Careers and data. Each note explains the concept, works the examples with the numbers done, gives the Indian standards, codes and laws in force today, and ends with interview questions and the mistakes examiners look for - for semester exams, competitive exams, campus placements and job interviews.
Microeconomics
- Demand and supply
- Elasticity of demand
- Consumer behaviour and utility
- Production and costs
- Perfect competition and monopoly
- Oligopoly and game theory basics
- Behavioural and information economics
- Factor pricing: wages, rent, interest and profit
- Managerial economics
- Welfare economics and market failure
Macroeconomics
- National income
- Consumption, investment and the multiplier
- Money and banking
- Inflation and unemployment
- Monetary policy and the RBI
- Fiscal policy and the Union Budget
- Aggregate demand and aggregate supply
- Business cycles
- Economic growth models: Harrod-Domar and Solow
- IS-LM model
International economics
- International trade theories
- Balance of payments and exchange rates
- Globalisation and FDI
- IMF, World Bank and international finance
- Open-economy macroeconomics
- Trade policy, WTO and India's trade agreements
Indian economy
- Demographic dividend and human development
- Economic reforms since 1991
- Federal finance and GST
- Indian agriculture: policy and challenges
- Indian economy basics
- Indian financial system and banking reforms
- Industrial policy and Make in India
- Infrastructure and urbanisation
- Planning in India and NITI Aayog
- Poverty, inequality and employment in India
- Sectors of the Indian economy
Development, public and environmental economics
- Economic growth and development
- Environmental economics and climate change
- Health and education economics
- Labour economics
- Measuring inequality and poverty
- Public finance and taxation
- Urban and regional economics
Quantitative methods
- Economic modelling with Excel and R
- Index numbers
- Introductory econometrics: regression
- Mathematical economics basics