INTRODUCTION
Readers who love to cook appreciate the fact that in Chinese cuisine one of most difficult tasks is the preparation of the ingredients.Once the meats and vegetables are properly sliced and all of the spices are secured ,everything is thrown into the work in a systematic and timely fashion and usually within a minute or two the dish is ready. In a sense ,we have been "slicing and dicing" over the past eight chapters and at last we are ready to cook. We have taken you through the definition of economics and managerial economics, the goals of the firm ,the market forces of supply and demand ,the various types of demand elasticity