The prefix micro means small, indicating that microeconomics is concerned with the study of the market system on a small scale. Microeconomics looks at the individual markets that make up the market system and is concerned with the choices made by small economic units such as individual consumers, individual firms, or individual government agencies.
Economics
- Introduction
- Demand, Supply, and Elasticity
- GDP, Inflation, and Unemployment
- Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
- Classical and Keynesian Theories: Output, Employment
- Money and Banking
- Fiscal and Monetary Policy
- Theory of the Consumer
- Theory of the Firm
- Perfect Competition
- Monopoly
- Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
- Labor Market
- Capital Market
- Economic Policy
- Economic Analysis
- Economics Defined
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Equilibrium Analysis
- Elasticity
- Demand
- Supply
- GDP
- Nominal GDP, Real GDP, and Price Level
- Unemployment Rate
- Aggregate Demand (AD) Curve
- Aggregate Supply (AS) Curve
- Combining AD and AS Supply Curves
- The Classical Theory
- The Keynesian Theory
- Supply of Money
- Definition of Money
- Functions of Money
- The Demand for Money
- Fiscal Policy
- Monetary Policy
- Consumer Equilibrium
- Consumer Equilibrium Changes in Prices
- Individual Demand Market Demand
- Consumer Surplus
- Utility and Preferences
- Production Costs and Firm Profits
- Long‐Run Costs
- Production of Goods
- Long-Run Supply
- Conditions for Perfect Competition
- Demand in a Perfectly Competitive Market
- Short-Run Supply
- Monopoly in the Long-Run
- Costs of Monopoly
- Conditions for Monopoly
- Demand in a Monopolistic Market
- Profit Maximization
- Monopolistic Competition in the Long-run
- Conditions for an Oligopolistic Market
- Kinked-Demand Theory of Oligopoly
- Cartel Theory of Oligopoly
- Conditions for Monopoly
- Demand in a Monopolistic Market
- Monopolists: Profit Maximization
- Equilibrium in a Perfectly Competitive Market
- Labor Demand and Supply in a Monopsony
- Equilibrium in a Monopsony Market
- Labor Demand and Supply in a Perfectly Competitive Market
- Capital, Loanable Funds, Interest Rate
- Present Value and Investment Decisions
- Measures of Capital
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