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| Principles of Microeconomics |
| The Nature and Functions of Product Markets |
Description |
- Supply and demand
- Market equilibrium
- Determinants of supply and demand
- Price and quantity controls
- Elasticity
- Price, income, and cross-price elasticities of demand
- Price elasticity of supply
- Consumer surplus, producer surplus, and market efficiency
- Tax incidence and deadweight loss
- Theory of consumer choice
- Total utility and marginal utility
- Utility maximization: equalizing marginal utility per dollar
- Individual and market demand curves
- Income and substitution effects
- Production and costs
- Production functions: short and long run
- Marginal product and diminishing returns
- Short-run costs
- Long-run costs and economies of scale
- Cost minimizing input combination
- Firm behavior and market structure Profit
- Accounting versus economic profits
- Normal profit
- Profit maximization: MR=MC rule
- Perfect competition
- Profit maximization
- Short-run supply and shut-down decision
- Firm and market behaviors in short-run and long-run equilibria
- Efficiency and perfect competition
- Monopoly
- Sources of market power
- Profit maximization
- Inefficiency of monopoly
- Price discrimination
- Oligopoly
- Interdependence, collusion, and cartels
- Game theory and strategic behavior
- Monopolistic competition
- Product differentiation and role of advertising
- Profit maximization
- Short-run and long-run equilibrium
- Excess capacity and inefficiency
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