(economy)
A. The Nature Of Human Beings As A Social And Economic Creatures
Humans are born to earth equipped with physical and spiritual strength and equipped feelings, reason and instinct. Both physical and spiritual components of this requires that needs to be met. Physical components require physical needs and the tangible needs of the body such as food, clothing, houses, and so forth. So is the spiritual component requires the need of energy, excitement, and enjoyment such as education, religion, spiritual spray, and recreation. Physical and spiritual needs must be met for human life can be going well.
Every human being trying to fulfill their needs but not all needs can be met. Meeting the needs depending on their needs. Human desire various types and amounts are unlimited. Once finished fulfill his wish that the other one appears desire and so on. Human desire to be fulfilled in economics called needs, while desire is the desire in question would satisfy the specific needs, while the requirement is a desire for goods and services that can provide satisfaction for survival. Human desire to meet the needs of human beings called the economic life. With desire, the man kept trying to ways and means to meet their needs.
Human nature that always wants to improve their lives is the fact that human beings as economic beings (homo economicus), in which homo economicus mean mean man and who live according to his own interests. In economics, human beings are considered always wanted to achieve maximum satisfaction with their money. A trader for example, he wants to achieve maximum satisfaction with their money. A buyer wants to buy goods by projecting the notion that humans are essentially economic beings or homo economicus. As homo economicus, humans are considered to act in a rational, have complete information to know the life of himself, and always aim to optimize the economics of everyday behavior.
Humans though have no perfection in all his actions, but as economic beings, in the economic act has at least four aspects as follows.
1. Rationality (Common Sense)
Rationality is defined as the ability to think well and to practice taking the right decision.
2. Personal Interests
Man as homo economicus has a personal interest attached to thick on him. Individual self-interest was not in full control of the human self, but still there are other interests that are social or want to help others.
3. Moral
Man in meeting the needs that have to consider the moral aspects. Aspects of moral and character are needed when human beings carry out their function as social and economic beings.
4. Information
To be able to carry out economic activities with good, it takes a true and complete information for the specified party has to a large value so that its benefits are also great. With this information, people make the right choices of the many information.
Factors that affect the human desire to meet the needs are as follows:
1. Residence
2. Education
3. Age
4. Human resources available natural resources
B. Human Behavior In The Same Work To Make Ends Meet.
Human beings can not be separated from economic role in meeting the needs of other human beings. These conditions are not directly illustrate that human beings are basically social beings as well. Humans as individuals in their daily life is always interact or relate to other individuals. These relationships will naturally encourage every individual to do the same work. To realize human behavior that work together harmoniously in meeting the needs of the concern of every human being in creating awareness among the functions of humans as social beings and economic beings.
C. Human Behavior In The Use Of Economic Resources To Meet Needs
Human beings have needs that must be met. To make ends meet, humans do things. When I was a baby, we cry to get breast milk. Once you can talk, we can ask directly to parents. But human beings do not always have to rely solely on other people to meet their needs. When still very small, you can ask disuapin fed by their parents. This is a way for your eating needs required for the more able to meet their own needs independently. Fulfilled. Can you do this forever? Of course not, the adult human being prosecuted for the more able to meet their own needs independently. First of all people to view the resources he has. These resources can range from foodstuffs, vehicles, rice, peerkebunan, mind, time to money. After looking at available resources, he will use to meet their needs.
D. Characteristics Of Human Beings As A Social And Economic Immoral
1. Mutual help - help
2. Esprit de corps
3. Tolerance
4. Sympathy
5. Following the norms / rules
As for as economic beings, human beings have characteristics as follows:
1. Having the nature is never satisfied
2. Having a lot of desire
3. Have needs in his life
4. Always consider the sacrifice of the benefits gained.
5. Working hard to earn revenue
E. Economics
Man in his life sail always try to meet their needs in the form of goods or services. Economics arise from the unlimited human needs ,while satisfying the needs of tools ( economic resources ) are limited . The existence of human effort to meet their needs as well as the alternative use of economic resources with a variety of specific purposes.
The term economics comes from the Greek ooikonomia, that is by word oikos meaning and norms of the household and nomos meaning set. So oikonomia is to manage the household. Along with the development of science and technology, the economy is also growing understanding not only manage the household in a broad sense, such as domestic companies, communities, and even the world.
Below are some definitions of economics
1. Economics is the science which studies human efforts to meet their needs.
2. Economics is the science which teaches how to make a choice in utilizing limited resources.
3. Economics is the science which studies human efforts to fulfill prosperity.