Economics, the social science which incorporates production, distribution, trade and consumption of goods, is the basis upon how society lives and maintains their status in the world. This science can be broken down into two main aspects: macroeconomics (the economy as a whole, supply and demand for money, capital and commodities) and microeconomics (individual agents, households and businesses). The many aspects of economics includes production, distribution, trade, competition and resource allocation; all of which involve choices depending on scarcity and economic value, which in turn relies on supply and demand. Many of today’s economic policies are attributed to the works of the world’s largest contributors to this science: Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes. It is their lives, education and philosophy that has helped to inspire and shape the economic policies many nations still carry out today.
Adam Smith’s life proved to be exciting from the start. At the ample age of four,......
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