PREGUNTA # 7                Tema: valores            Clase No:   1 _

¨ Defina: ECONOMíA, Economista, Económico ? _

RESPUESTA:

Ecomomía = manejo cuidadoso y eficiente de un recurso.

ACLARACION:

ECONOMY n. pl. economies 1. a. Careful, thrifty management of resources. b. An example of such management. 2. The system of economic activity in a country or region. 3. Efficient or sparing use. [From Greek oikonomia, management of a household.] "The American Heritage© Concise Dictionary," (c) 1994 Houghton Mifflin Company. (c) 1994 INSO Corporation. All rights reserved. ====================----- ECONOMICS, social science concerned with the production, distribution, exchange, and consumption of goods and services. ECONOMISTS focus on the way in which individuals, groups, business enterprises, and governments seek to achieve efficiently any economic objective they select. Other fields of study also contribute to this knowledge: PSYCHOLOGY and ETHICS try to explain how objectives are formed; HYSTORY records changes in human objectives; SOCIOLOGYinterprets human behavior in social contexts. "Economics," Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 97 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ====================----- ECONOMIC adj. 1. Of or relating to the production, development, and management of material wealth, as of a country. 2. Of or relating to the necessities of life. 3. Efficient; economical. "The American Heritage© Concise Dictionary," (c) 1994 Houghton Mifflin Company. (c) 1994 INSO Corporation. All rights reserved. ====================----- Smith, Adam (Kirkcaldy, Fifeshire 1723 - Edimburgo 1790) ECONOMISTA y FILàSOFO brit nico. .... Su pensamiento económico, de car cter liberal, contribuyó a la formación de la llamada economía cl sica. ... Mantiene que el trabajo es la principal fuente de riqueza y que el interés personal, juntamente con el funcionamiento libre de la oferta y la demanda, constituye el mecanismo m s apropiado de regulación de la economía. Consecuentemente, defiende la libertad completa del comercio, sin ninguna intervención del Estado. Ref: Extracto de enciclopedia Santillana ====================----- ====================----- ====================-----

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