Welcome to Introduction to Microeconomics. Wikipedia defines Microeconomics to be "the study of the economic behaviour of individual consumers, firms, and industries and the distribution of production and income among them".

This is an introduction to microeconomic analysis of the workings of supply and demand in the determination of price, resource allocation, and distribution. In this course markets are analyzed for their effect on economic efficiency and income distribution.

But what does this mean? "The study of economic behavior". One of the key concepts in Economics is the idea of scarcity. Society as a whole has unlimited wants, and scarcity occurs because there are not enough resources to satisfy these wants. Economic behavior comes into play when deciding how to allocate the resources available.

Lectures

  • Lecture I: Introduction to Microeconomics
Key Terms:
Supply, Quantity Supplied, Law of Supply, Demand, Quantity Demanded, Law of Demand, Equilibrium
Practice Problems: Practice Problems#Supply Demand and Equilibrium
Solutions: Solutions#Supply Demand and Equilibrium
Key Terms:
Supply, Quantity Supplied, Law of Supply, Demand, Quantity Demanded, Law of Demand, Equilibrium
Practice Problems: Practice Problems#Supply Demand and Equilibrium
Solutions: Solutions#Supply Demand and Equilibrium
Key Terms:
Excise Tax, Sales Tax
Practice Problems: Practice Problems#The Effects of Taxation
Solutions: Solutions#The Effects of Taxation
Key Terms:
Indifference, Indifference Curve, Budget Line
Key Terms:
Normal, Inferior, Ordinary, Giffen
  • Lecture VI: Types of Markets
Key Terms:
Oligopoly, Perfect Competition, Monopoly
Key Terms:
Preferences, Utility Function, Expenditure Function, Marshallian Demand Curves, Hicksian Demand Curves

See also

Further reading

  • Hal R. Varian (1993). Intermediate Microeconomics A Modern Approach Third Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 659. ISBN 0-393-96320-9.
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