What is meant by economic rationale?
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Firms continuously face investment decisions and they undertake only some of them. They, therefore, need to justify their decisions according some economic rationale. High cash in-flows, tax benefits, synergies with other products, economies of scale and scope are examples of economical rationale. \n\nAt the end the firm makes an overall evaluation of the investment opportunity, according to some capital budgeting method such as "net present value" and decides to take the project or not.
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See for yourself.\n\nhttp://sparknotes.com/economics
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In terms of economics for the consumer yes it is. \n\nWhy you are asking this I dont know though
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From economist.com\nCapital\n"Economists describe capital as one of the four essential ingredients of economic activity, the FACTORS OF PRODUCTION, along with LAND, LABOUR and ENTERPRISE."\n\nThis means that capital purchase buy things that can contribute to increasing production (such as factories, more trucks, more computers etc)\n\nNon capital puchases would be anything else that doesn't increase production such as paying off debt.
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based on supply and demand.  Too detailed to explain in a q&a.  If you're in school, take a finance and economics class.
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market related (quantity, price, etc), investment of companies (since they tend to expand the market), mergers and aquisitions, government regulation
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The Economist has an Economics A to Z section to help you understand various terms.\n\nIts helpful for looing up depreciation, gross, net, etc.
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It's short for economy, which comes from the Greek word "Ekonomia" or Οικονομία, which has it's roots in the word Οίκος = Home. It also reflects wards like savings, thrift and the like.\nNDS
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I can't provide you with an article, but I can provide you with some economic thoughts that may help answer your question:\n\n-This morning I did not want my teeth to rot, so I used toothpaste produced by Colgate....\n\nEconomic problem solved!\n\n-I was thirsty...I drank orange juice produced by Tropicana...\n\nEconomic problem solved!\n\n-I didn' want to walk all day barefoot...so I put on my Nike's...\n\nEconomic problem solved!\n\n-I didn't want to starve...so I ate a sandwich from Burger King...\n\nEconomic problem solved!\n\n-I watched a TV produced by Panasonic, surfed the net on a Dell, and drove a Toyota! \n\nEconomic problems were solved left and right!\n\nI can go on and on, but as you can see...the Marketplace and the Freedom to produce are wonderful things!
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Work on logic games; that can help with general reasoning. \n\nWhat are you trying to analyze? Work situations? Shipping? Personnel? There's a lot of books and resources, some probably available at your library, that give strategy for various aspects of business. Sorry I can't be more precise, but your question is very broad.
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The production of capital goods will cause the PPC to shift outwards leading to (potential) economic growth. The opportunity cost of growth is current consumption. Production of consumer goods provides current gratification but does nothing to stimulate economic growth or the outward movement of the PPC.
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it's a way to derive demand.
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You proceed from a fictitious hypothesis into an artificial dilemma.   If you accept that the interested parties would not be inversely affected, and prescind from recusant thought, you’ll find that the reality of the situation necessitates no cozening.\n\nOr to clarify...\n"Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know. " - Groucho Marx
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It seems a question for an economics graduate in his final paper at college.
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The government can control the economy, providing stability and a sense of certainty that would lead to a rise in economic activity. The economy can then sustain a steady growth
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OK, let's say someone was looking for an answer to something that he/she wanted to know about, let's just say they wanted to know about what research was.  They would go somehow and seek an answer for their desired subject matter and then after they had done as much research as they wanted or could do then they would possibly come up with an answer . If you wanted the research to be rationale then it would have to include something that is an essential or necessary part of a system or object (system or object being in this example: research).
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Resource allocation is the reason why economies exists. Suppose you are running an economy. How will you find out who to be rewarded and whom not. So the most efficient and effective is supposed to get the resources than the lazy and slumbered. Now they say if you unleash competition in the economy then this will allocate resources efficiently, meaning every one will work to get a piece of the pie. Those who don't gets jagged.\nIn the same sense when a company is run, it's resources has to be efficiently handled to get the piece of pie offered by the economy else your competitor will eat your pie too for having not done so.