This document provides an overview of managerial economics and key economic concepts for managers. It discusses:
1) The global trend of increasing new businesses starting each year from 2012 to 2022.
2) Key tasks for business managers like allocating resources, determining pricing strategies, and analyzing market trends.
3) Definitions of managerial economics focusing on applying economic theory to managerial decision-making and bridging economic and business practices.
4) Fundamental economic concepts like scarcity of resources, opportunity cost, sunk cost, marginal cost, economies of scale, fixed and variable costs that managers must consider in decision-making.