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Microeconomics 1e
Economic analysis of market systems, price theory, including supply and demand analysis, marginal utility, elasticity, cost and revenue concepts, perfect and imperfect competition, international trade theory, pricing of the factors of production, poverty and income inequalities.
- Author
- Martin Medeiros
- Publisher
- Chabot College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Economics
Contents· 84 sections
- 01: Overview
- 1.01: What is Economics
- 1.02: Scarcity and Choices
- 1.03: The Economy
- 1.04: Production Possibilities
- 1.05: Reality Shot
- 02: Gross Domestic Product
- 2.01: Making Sense of the Data
- 2.02: Gross Domestic Product
- 2.03: Missing Output
- 2.04: GDP and Spending
- 2.05: The Relationship between Expenditure Components and Economic Indicators
- 03: Supply and Demand
- 3.01: Free Markets and Efficiency
- 3.02: Free Markets - Sustainability
- 3.03: Free Markets Enhanced Growth
- 3.04: Supply and Demand A Form of Communication
- 3.05: Demand
- 3.06: Supply
- 3.07: Equilibrium
- 04: Elasticity
- 4.01: Limitations of the Laws of Supply and Demand
- 4.02: Elasticity
- 4.03: Rubber Band Theory
- 4.04: Calculating Elasticity
- 4.05: Determinants of Elasticity
- 05: Costs of Production
- 5.01: Costs and Profit
- 5.02: Costs and Productivity
- 5.03: Marginal Cost
- 5.04: Variable Cost
- 5.05: Average Total Cost
- 5.06: Long-run Average Total Costs
- 06: Perfect Competition
- 6.01: Market Structure
- 6.02: Market Environment
- 6.03: Perfect Competition
- 6.04: Profit Maximization and Output
- 6.05: Long Run Equilibrium
- 07: Monopoly
- 7.01: Market Environment
- 7.02: Market Power
- 7.03: Profit Maximization and Output
- 7.04: Social Cost and Benefits
- 08: Oligopoly
- 8.01: Market Environment
- 8.02: Oligopoly
- 8.03: Measuring Market Structure
- 8.04: Interdependency
- 8.05: Stable Output and Price
- 8.06: Kinked Demand Curve
- 8.07: Marginal Revenue Gap
- 09: Games and Strategic Behavior
- 9.01: Matrix Games
- 9.02: Nash Equilibrium
- 9.03: Mixed Strategies
- 9.04: Examples
- 9.05: Subgame Perfection
- 9.06: Supergames
- 10: Market Failure
- 10.01: Market Failure- Market Power
- 10.02: Natural Monopoly
- 10.03: Market Power- Governmental Options
- 10.04: Market Failure- Externalities
- 10.05: Externalities
- 10.06: Governments Role
- 10.07: Alternatives to Government Intervention
- 11: Wages and Employment in Perfect Competition
- 11.01: The Demand for Labor
- 11.02: The Supply of Labor
- 11.03: Labor Markets at Work
- 11.04: Review and Practice
- 12: International Trade
- 12.01: Introduction
- 12.02: Absolute and Comparative Advantage
- 12.03: What Happens When a Country Has an Absolute Advantage in All Goods
- 12.04: Intra-industry Trade between Similar Economies
- 12.05: The Benefits of Reducing Barriers to International Trade
- 12.06: Key Terms
- 12.07: Key Concepts and Summary
- 12.08: Self-Check Questions
- 12.09: Review Questions
- 12.10: Critical Thinking Questions
- 12.11: Problems