ECONOMICS:
PAPER-1- ECONOMIC THEORY
(SECTION- A)
1. Consumer Demand and Consumer Sovereignty :
Law
of Demand, Nature and types of elasticity of demand, indifference curve
analysis and consumer’s equilibrium.
2. Theory of Production:
Production
function, laws of returns, equilibrium of a producer, nature of cost and
revenue curves, pricing of factors of production.
3. Price and output determination:
Under
different market conditions, Cost plus pricing.
4. Equilibrium :
General
and Partial, Stable and Unstable.
5. Concepts of Economic Welfare :
Old
and New Welfare economics, Pareto Optimality and compensation principles,
Consumer’s surplus. Economics welfare and Competition.
6.National Income :
Concept,
Components and methods of accounting. Classical and Keynesian Theories of
Employment and Income, Pigou effect and Real balance effect; Intersection of
Multiplier
and
Accelerator .Theory of Trade Cycles. (Monetary and Hicksian trade cycles).
7. Theory of Money :
Measurement
of changes in price level, Theory of money supply. Money Multiplier, Quantity
theory of Money, Theories of Demand for money. Interest determination, IS-LM
curve analysis. Theory of Inflation, Measures of inflation control.
8. Monetary and Banking System: Banks and their roles in the economy. Central Bank
and
the money market, Techniques of monetary Management.
SECTION – B
(1) Public Finance :
Theories of Taxation and Public Expenditure, Incidence of
taxation, evasion and shifting of Tax burden, Effects of Taxation, Fiscal
Policy and economic development, economic classification of Budgetary Receipts
and Expenditure, Types of budget deficits and their effects on the economy.
(2) International Economics :
Theories of
International Trade, Hecksher-Ohlin theory. Offer Terms of Trade, Trade and
Development Balance of Payments, Disequilibrium in Balance of Payments and
policies for correcting it. Fixed and fluctuating exchange rates, Free Trade
vs. Protection, Foreign Debt and Debt management, International Monetary and
Trade Institutions.
(3) Growth and
Development :
Measures of Economic developments. Theories of Economic Growth;
Classical, Marxian and Harrod-Domar Model, Surplus Labor and capital formation,
stages of growth. Problem of Human Capital formation.
PAPER- II INDIAN ECONOMY
1. Basic Features of Indian Economy :
Trends in National Income and per capita income. Changes in comparison of National Income. Population
Growth and Economic Development, Characteristics of India’s Population. Changes
in occupational pattern. Development & Infrastructure for Agriculture and
Industry. Source of Energy: Conventional and non-conventional. Energy Crisis, Environmental
pollution and its control.
2.Indian Agriculture :
Importance
of agriculture in Indian economy. Source of growth in agriculture.
Institutional
reforms
in Indian agriculture with special reference to land reforms and credit supply.
Agricultural cost
and
product pricing.
3. Industrial growth and Structure in India : Public Sector. Private Corporate Sector
Joint
Sector. Small Scale and Cottage Industry in India; Industrial Policy
resolutions; competition and industrial growth. Foreign Capital Technology and
growth of Indian Industry; Industrial sickness in India.
Labor
policy reforms in India.
4. Budgetary Trends and Fiscal Policy in India : Trends of major sources
of
public revenue and expenditure of Union Government, and U.P. Government.
Non-Plan expenditure of
Union
Government internal and external debt of the Union Government, Fiscal and
Revenue deficits in Union Budget, Major recommendations of the Tenth Finance
Commission.
5. Money and Banking : The
Monetary institutions of India. Commercial Banks, Reserve Bank of India,
Special Financial Institutions ( Banking and nonbanking). Sources of Reserve
money, money multipliers, objective and techniques of monetary policy in India
and their limitations.
6. Foreign Trade and Balance of Payment : Foreign Trade of India-volume, composition and direction, Trade
Policy-import substitution, export promotion and self reliance. Import
liberalization and its effect on trade balance, External borrowing and the
burden of foreign debt.
7. Exchange rate of rupee.
Devaluation
and its effect on balance of payments-convertibility of rupee. Integration of
Indian economic with the world economy, Indian and the World Trade Organization.
8. Economic Planning in India.
Role
of economic planning in India. Objectives of Economic Planning, Problems of
unemployment,
Economic
poverty and regional imbalances’ brief review of planning in India since 1951.
Strategy of planning in India and recent changes therein. Financial resources
for the Plans Objectives and achievements of the Eighth Five Year plan and the
proposed strategy for the Ninth Plan.
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