“Imagine saving water in a desert… and waking up to find it leaking away.” That’s exactly what was happening to my money for three years. I used to lose money in the most forgettable ways. Food delivery on tired nights. Random convenience buys between classes. Late-night online orders that felt like minimal until I saw the total. None of it looked reckless on its own, which was the problem. But guess what? I was an Economics Student. What finally changed things wasn't a stricter budget or a better app. It was Economics . Once I started thinking like an economist, integrating systems thinking and wider financial security, I started to save money, I noticed I had been choosing without asking what each choice cost me somewhere else. That shift sounds small, but it changed everything. I stopped seeing spending as good or bad, and started seeing it as a trade between money, time, stress, and future options and what I am sacrificing for another object(s) Seeing Every Purchase as a Trad...
How Calculus is used in Economics. In the Last Volume of Applied Economics, we learnt about Maximizing Profit. But today, this blog aims to focus not only on qualitative aspects but also on quantitative ones. Theory can only take you so far. For example: A theoretical law (Law of demand, Law of Supply etc), may show you the direction in which demand moves, but it does not tell you by “How Much” the demand moves. Calculus fixes that. Why do some firms seem to "feel" the right price, the right output, or the right risk level? Most of the time, it's not intuition. It's applied economics , built on the Foundation of Economic Models that firms, banks, and funds use every day. This is the Application of Calculus in plain sight. The same ideas you see in class guide real decisions, from choosing how many units to produce to adjusting a hedge when volatility jumps. If you've ever wondered how analysts turn messy markets into clean rules, the answer is often math. In this...