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ICB Office Administration Intermediate Level: Subject – Economics

This course forms part of the Intermediate Level in the ICB Office Administration Programme. This course is an insightful study of how people behave and organisations operate under constraints of resources. It provides powerful tools to understand and analyse many aspects of our lives and help us to become informed, perceptive decision-makers. It also helps develop methodical ways of thinking and problem solving which can be used in our lives as effective members of the workforce, responsible and knowledgeable citizens, informed consumers, savers, and investors, and perceptive participants in the global economy. This course explores the ways in which this social science analyses the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services, and aims to explain how economies work and how economic agents interact. Economic analysis is applied throughout society, in business, finance and government, but also in crime, education, the family, health, law, politics, religion, social institutions, war, and science.... more