Anggota Kelompok :
- Harits Lukman Pratama (1-3)
- Ramadhan Saputra (4-6)
- Angga Priyambada (7-8)
- Danang Prawibowo (9-10)
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
9. Our basic
need is food, clothes and shelter.
10. That means if
humans could satisfy the basic needs, we may still want other things, such as
radio as well as the basic necessity of having enough food to eat.
Nama : Danang Prawibowo
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Nama : Danang Prawibowo
NPM : 21211707
Kelas : 3EB08
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