Question

Jatin is an engineer who is working for a food processing industry, but on weekends he runs his father’s shop. Identify the types of Economic activity carried on by Jatin in the above case​

Answer 1

What are Economic Activities?

All humans perform a variety of activities on any given day. There is work that we do every day and other activities we do for personal fulfilment and joy. So as a general rule, we can say that all the activities we do to earn a living are economic activities. All other activities are non-economic activities.

One way to identify economic activities is that they are driven by rationality and logic. The reason for performing such activities is for our own self-interest. We will gauge what returns we get in exchange for performing such activities. Non-economic activities, on the other hand, are done for emotional reasons or concern for another person. So all religious, charitable, social, patriotic, recreational activities are non-economic activities.

But it is not always easy to determine the nature of an activity. If you enjoy painting as a hobby it is a non-economic activity. However, if you sell your paintings then it becomes an economic activity. So the motive behind doing any activity is a strong indicator of its nature.

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Characteristics of Economic Activities

We will now see some distinguishing characteristics of features of economic activities that will help us determine and identify economic activities from non-economic activities.

1] Income Generation

All economic activities will generate some form of income. It is not compulsory that such income is in monetary terms, it can be in different kinds. So, if the activity is a form of livelihood for the person, and it generates him any form of income then it is an economic activity. For example, a labourer who toils the land and gets paid in crops, this is an economic activity.

So when you employ any one of the factors of production (land, capital, labour, entrepreneur) and in return earn an income in form of wages, salary, rent, royalty, profit, etc, we will classify such an activity as an economic activity. For example, rent earned on a property

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Answer 2

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