Economic agent
See also: Agent
The economic agent is the basic unit of the economic analysis.
The economic agent can be an individual, a Ménage, a Entreprise, a country, a Territorial collectivity… Parfois the economic agents or autonomous economic decision-making centres are gathered according to their principal economic activities to form several type of economic agents.
Definition
An economic agent is a moral Natural person or or a group of people constituting an autonomous economic decision-making center.
The decision-making centres are gathered according to their principal economic activities. The exchanges between the various categories of agents constitute the Economic channel
Economic agents according to the National accounting
See also: National accounting
The National accounting gathers the economic agents in six types of institutional Unités:
- Household S,
- Finance companies,
- Companies not - financial (Undertaken S),
- Public administrations,
- non-profit-making Institutions with the service of households (ISBLSM)
- and “rest of the world”.
Other representations of the economy
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Hard-working, capitalist and landowners (Traditional school and Karl Marx)
- Homo œconomicus (school marginalist)
- representative Agents (neo-classic school)
See too
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