Anggota Kelompok :
- Ahmad Nofandi (5 dan 6)
- Alvin Admaja (9 dan10)
- Faruk Kasyfi (1 dan 3)
- Wahyu Danu (2 dan 8)
- Hendro L ( 4 dan 7)
Most people work to earn a living, and produce goods
and services. Goods are either agricultural (like maize), or manufactured (like
cars). Services are such things as education, medicine, and commerce. Some
people provide goods; some provide services. Other people provide both goods
and services. For example, in the same garage a man may buy a car or some
service which helps him maintain his car.
The work
people do is called economic activity. All economic activities taken together
make up the economic system of a town, a city, a country or a world. Such an
economic system is the sum-total of what people do and what they want. The work
people do either provides what they need or provides the money with which they
can buy essential commodities. Of course, most people hope to have enough money
to buy commodities and services which are non-essential but which provide some
particular personal satisfaction, such as toys for children, visits to the
cinema and books.
The
science of economics is based upon the facts of our everyday lives. Economists
study our everyday lives and the general life of our communities in order to
understand the whole economic system of which we are part. They try to describe
the facts of the economy in which we live, and to explain how it works. The
economist’s methods should of course be strictly objective and scientific.
We need
food, clothes and shelter. We probably would not go to work if we could satisfy
these basic needs without working. But even when we have satisfied such basic
needs, we may still want other other things, such as the toys, visits to the
cinema and books mentioned above. Our lives might be more enjoyable if we had
such things. Human beings undoubtedly have a wide and very complex range of
wants. The science of economics is concerned with all our needs with desire to
have a radio as well as the basic necessity of having enough food to eat. (Taken form A Rapid Course in English for Students
of Economics by Tom McArthur)
QUESTION
1. What
is the main idea of paraghrap 1?
2. What
do most people produce?
3. What
is an economic activity?
4.
Mention of example of services which provide some personal satisfaction
5. What
is based upon the facts of our everyday lives?
6. Why
the economist should study our everyday lives?
7. What
do the economist try to do ?
8. What
is the main idea of paraghrap 4?
9. What
our basic needs?
10. What is
the meaning of the sentences “human beings undoubtedly have a wide and a very
complex range of wants” (line 26-27)?
ANSWER
5. As
well as the basic necessity of having enough food to eat
6. Economists study our everyday lives and
the general life of our communities in order to understand the whole economic
system of which we are part
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