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Principles of Microeconomics
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- EN
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- Economics
Contents· 73 sections
- 01: Welcome to Economics
- 1.01: What Economics Is and Why It's Important
- 1.02: How Economists Use Theories and Models to Understand Economic Issues
- 1.03: How Economies Can Be Organized- An Overview of Economic Systems
- 02: Choice in a World of Scarcity
- 2.01: Welcome to Economics
- 2.02: Prelude to Choice in a World of Scarcity
- 2.03: How Individuals Make Choices Based on Their Budget Constraint
- 2.04: The Production Possibilities Frontier and Social Choices
- 2.05: Confronting Objections to the Economic Approach
- 2.E: Choice in a World of Scarcity (Exercises)
- 03: Demand and Supply
- 3.01: Prelude to Demand and Supply
- 3.02: Demand Supply and Equilibrium in Markets for Goods and Services
- 3.03: Shifts in Demand and Supply for Goods and Services
- 3.04: Changes in Equilibrium Price and Quantity- The Four-Step Process
- 3.05: Price Ceilings and Price Floors
- 3.06: Demand Supply and Efficiency
- 3.07: Labor and Financial Markets
- 3.08: Demand and Supply at Work in Labor Markets
- 3.09: Demand and Supply in Financial Markets
- 3.E: Demand and Supply (Exercises)
- 04: Elasticity
- 4.01: Prelude to Elasticity
- 4.02: Price Elasticity of Demand and Price Elasticity of Supply
- 4.03: Polar Cases of Elasticity and Constant Elasticity
- 4.04: Elasticity and Pricing
- 4.05: Elasticity in Areas Other Than Price
- 4.E: Elasticity (Exercises)
- 05: Consumer Choices
- 5.01: Prelude to Consumer Choices
- 5.02: Consumption Choices
- 5.03: How Changes in Income and Prices Affect Consumption Choices
- 5.04: Labor-Leisure Choices
- 5.05: Intertemporal Choices in Financial Capital Markets
- 5.E: Consumer Choices (Exercises)
- 06: Production and Cost Structure of the Firm
- 6.01: Prelude to Production and Cost Structure of the Firm
- 6.02: Explicit and Implicit Costs and Accounting and Economic Profit
- 6.03: The Structure of Costs in the Short Run
- 6.04: The Structure of Costs in the Long Run
- 6.E: Production and Cost Structure of the Firm (Exercises)
- 07: Perfect Competition
- 7.01: Prelude to Perfect Competition
- 7.02: Perfect Competition and Why It Matters
- 7.03: How Perfectly Competitive Firms Make Output Decisions
- 7.04: Entry and Exit Decisions in the Long Run
- 7.05: Efficiency in Perfectly Competitive Markets
- 7.E: Perfect Competition (Exercises)
- 08: Monopoly
- 8.01: Introduction
- 8.02: How Monopolies Form- Barriers to Entry
- 8.03: How a Profit-Maximizing Monopoly Chooses Output and Price
- 8.E: Monopoly (Exercises)
- 09: Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
- 9.01: Introduction
- 9.02: Monopolistic Competition
- 9.03: Oligopoly
- 9.E: 10.E-Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly (Exercises)
- 10: Market Failure- Externalities
- 10.01: Introducing Market Failure
- 10.02: Externalities in Depth
- 10.03: Government Policy Options
- 10.04: Private Solutions
- 11: Market Failure- Public Goods and Common Resources
- 11.01: Public Goods
- 11.02: Common Resources
- 12: International Trade
- 12.01: Introduction to International Trade
- 12.02: Gains from Trade
- 12.03: The United States in the Global Economy
- 12.04: Barriers to Trade
- 12.05: Arguments for and Against Protectionist Policy