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SYLLABUS FOR BCS (WRITTEN) EXAMINATION
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ECONOMICS
(POST RELATED)
Subject Code: 331
Total Marks-200
Part-I
(Principles of Economics)
Marks – 100
1. Micro and Macro economics. Basic Macro economic concepts in relation to the Keynesian model of
income determination – relevance of Keynesian economics for underdeveloped countries.
2. Concepts of supply and demand and their determinates – concepts and measurements of variou s
elasticities of demand and supply.
3. Cardinal and Ordinal utility – law of diminishing marginal utility – equimarginal principle.
4. The Indifference Curve analysis – Properties of Indifference Curve – consumer‘s equilibrium –
income substitution and price effect.
5. Analysis of Production costs – Production function, Isoquants and return to scale – short run and
long run cost curve – Producers equilibrium.
6. Price determination in a perfectly competitive market – equilibrium of the farm and the industry –
short run and long run equilibrium – pricing under monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic
competition.
7. The Marginal Productivity theory of distribution – determination of rent, wages, interest and profit.
8. Types of function – linear, Quadratic, Hyperbolic, expo nential and log functions – graphs of
function. Equation of a straight line – Rectangular hyperbola – coordinates and location of points.
9. Concept of national income, utility of the study of national income, methods of measuring national
income, nominal income and real income.
10. Theory of international trade: Necessity of Trade, Theory of Comparative advantage, Hecksher -
ohlin theory of trade, terms of trade, gains from trade, tariffs and their justifications.
11. Globalization and its necessity, effects on the developing countries, Globalization under WTO
regime.