What is going on between Comcast and Walt Disney

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INTRODUCTION

Economics involves in all facets of our life. Manifestly, all activities people engage are affected by the economics decision taken by human being. The study of economics, therefore, is very interesting but complicated, indeed. This paper is written to motivate the economy theory by a real case of today's business. It explains the relationship between a part of the book Economics by John Sloman and a recent article concerning microeconomic issue. The article is taken from "The Economists". It looks at one of the hottest issue in the media industry. It discusses about the bid from Comcast, a cable TV company, for Walt Disney Company.

The paper is designed as follows. Firstly, I am going to summarize the article to give an overview about what is going on between Comcast and Walt Disney. Secondly, since the article is selected to clarify one of the microeconomics theories, I would also like to summarize a short part of Sloman's book. That part is about alternative maximizing theories and I would like to focus on the theory of merger. Thirdly, the linkage between the article and theory is discussed in the next part. Lastly, I would like to give