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A List of Economic Problems That Hamper the Growth of an Economy

In the modern world, common man often faces certain financial losses directly, as a result of the problems facing the national economy. Here, a list of economic problems that tend to affect people and the economy has been provided.

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List of Economic Problems

In the modern world, common man often faces certain financial losses directly, as a result of the problems facing the national economy. Here, a list of economic problems that tend to affect people and the economy has been provided.

The economic challenges and problems prevalent in today’s world revolve around several dynamic aspects of society. The academia of economics, as well as its material behavior, is based around man, society, and institutions. The theories that are used to solve financial problems are usually true, but not always. The faster we grasp the fact that economics is an art that revolves around man, the sooner we will be able to have financial peace. Another truth that we need to accept is that hardships or challenges are always going to be present.

What is an Economic Problem?

In a broad sense, an economic problem can be defined as an abnormal and irrational or irrelevant behavior by socio-economic units and market components. There are innumerable causes for this. Though there is no scale that measures the level of abnormal behavior, a financial problem is said to have arisen when the abnormal behavior by economic components tend to affect several institutions.

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In this discussion, market components signify 3 major constituents of the market, namely, demand, supply, and price. Though the magnitude of all the three components is small, it plays a highly influential role at a macro level. The term institute defines individuals, organizations, companies, government, governing bodies, and any unit which is capable of conducting economic activity.

Meaning

There are several definitions that elaborate upon this term. However, the simplest definition that is accepted world wide is that ‘a problem is an abnormality in economic institutions or constituents that in the view of society at large has a negative influence on earning and spending’. Rise in the price of gas by 1 cent is not an economic problem, but a rise by USD 10 is stated to be one.

Scarcity

Classical and neo-classical economists and also their school of though, have presented a very practical explanation of the challenges facing any economy. Human wants are unlimited. However, the volume of available resources that is used to fulfill them is very limited. Even the alternatives that are present are limited. This combination of limited resources and unlimited demands results into problems. This approach is often termed as the scarcity approach. Thus, when you try to find the solution, you will have to focus on unlimited wants and limited resources.

List of Economic Challenges

Here is a small list of economic problems, which is not totally complete and academic arguments to some elements in the list are welcome.

  • Anti-competitive behavior, laws, and practices
  • Mass bankruptcy filings and insolvency
  • Economic bubbles and mass business failure
  • Child labor and improper child welfare development
  • Commercial crimes and intentional or planned corporate offenses
  • Corporate crime and planned economic turmoil
  • Corporate scandals
  • Corruption
  • Uncontrolled debt
  • Financial disasters
  • Government or bureaucracy induced crisis
  • Mass economic inequality
  • Energy crisis
  • Ethically disputed business practices
  • Financial crises (restricted to the financial sector)
  • Uneven income distribution
  • Inflation
  • Market failure (component failure)
  • Monetary hegemony
  • Monopoly
  • Offshoring and outsourcing
  • Poverty
  • Recessions
  • Social inequality
  • Stock market crashes
  • Unemployment
  • Mass public affluenza
  • Abnormal (too long or too short) age stratification
  • Agflation
  • Asset price inflation
  • Bank run
  • Benefit shortfall
  • Biflation
  • GDP or market component contraction
  • Credit crunch crisis
  • Crony capitalism
  • Currency crisis
  • Cycle of poverty
  • Deflation
  • Deindustrialization
  • Demographic trap
  • High dependency ratio
  • Dominant minority
  • Dutch disease
  • Economic collapse
  • Economic mobility
  • Economic stagnation
  • Expenditure cascades
  • Exploitation
  • Financial contagion
  • Flight-to-liquidity
  • Flight-to-quality
  • Free rider problem
  • Glass ceilings
  • Hahn’s Problem
  • Horizontal inequality
  • Hyperinflation
  • Income deficit
  • Innovation butterfly
  • Insider trading
  • Kleptocracy
  • Liquidity crisis
  • Malthusian catastrophe and trap
  • Market abuse
  • Middle class squeeze
  • Monetary inflation
  • National bankruptcy
  • Crude oil depletion
  • Overcapitalisation
  • Overpopulation
  • Pandemic
  • Panic selling
  • Pensions crisis
  • Plutocracy (the rule of wealthy, or rather a combination of wealth and power, sufficing reach other)
  • Population decline
  • Real estate bubble
  • Rural flight
  • Societal collapse
  • Spending wave
  • Stagflation
  • State monopoly capitalism
  • Staycation (a time period where a person or a family takes off a non festive, or a non sick leave from work to relax for a day or two)
  • Stock market bubble
  • Sunshine tax (a significantly lower wage rate in one region as a result of excessive tax)
  • Urban decay
  • Waithood (refers to the long time period between the date of completion of education and date of employment in the lives of many young people)

In the recent past, a considerable number of problems have plagued the world’s markets. Here are some explanations.

Inflation

One of the biggest problems ever seen in the developing nations, inflation, involves the rise in price levels of goods and services. The basic reason that can be pointed out is that the population rise is not proportional and is excessive, in comparison to the available resources. Hence the higher number of people demand a limited number of goods, which leads to a price hike. In contrast to this commonly observed theory, inflation is also seen when currency in circulation is increased. Wars, natural disasters, other calamities are also accused of inflation. Hyperinflation is very, very fast and disproportional inflation. South east Asian economies are of date suffering from this phenomenon.

Economic Bubble

An economic bubble is high trade and market values of commodities, goods, and products, the intrinsic prices of which are very low. The same opposite situation can also arise. Real estate bubbles in United States were responsible for a great deal of reduction in financial activities.

Recession

The third prominent economic problem is recession, which was severely experienced in 2008. This cycle is a product of several causes, where in the market values, GDP, rate of employment, and economic growth stall or fall. This results into credit crunches, fall in rates of employment, and overall economic activities. A very prolonged recession is known as a depression.

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It must be noted that since economics is a science and art that deals with man, there are several challenges that overlap the scope of other social sciences. The reason being that, the focal point of all these issues and other social sciences is mankind.

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