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Comprehensive Study Guide: Principles of Microeconomics Final Exam Learning Objectives

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Introduction to Economics

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    Hello!
    00:16

Scarcity and Choice

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    Defining Economic Terms:Scarcity, Trade-offs, and Opportunity Costs
    02:39

Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) - Introduction and Productive Efficiency

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    Understanding the PPF
    06:23
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    PPF - Attainable and Efficient
    04:48

PPF - Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs and Allocative Efficiency

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    Allocative Efficiency with Marginal Analysis
    08:42
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    Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs
    04:38

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage

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    Opportunity Costs and Comparative Advantage
    06:30
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    Two PPFs, Specialization, and Absolute Advantage
    04:36

The Demand Curve

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    The Basics of Demand
    07:15
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    Individual Demand and Market Demand
    06:08

Shifts in the Demand Curve

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    Consumer Income:Normal Goods and Inferior Goods
    01:48
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    Substitute Goods
    04:10
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    Consumer Expectations
    02:18

Movement Along a Demand Curve

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    Shifting Demand - Warning!
    05:29

The Supply Curve

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    Individual Supply and Market Supply
    06:04
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    The Basics of Supply
    03:53

Shifts in the Supply Curve

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    Nature
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    Technology
    01:27
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    Substitutes in Production
    03:02

Movement Along a Supply Curve

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    Shifting Supply - Warning!
    03:08

Market Equilibrium

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    Overview of Supply and Demand Shifts
    04:07

Using the Supply and Demand Curves to Find Equilibrium

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    Equilibrium
    04:19
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    Results of Both Shifting
    06:34
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    Demand Shifts
    06:18

Price Ceilings, Price Floors, and Black Markets

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    Price Ceilings
    07:07
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    Price Floors and Black Markets
    08:03
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    Price Floors
    02:18

Externalities: Social Benefits and Social Costs

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    Externalities on the Graph
    14:23
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    Negative Externality and Positive Externality
    10:54

Four Types of Goods and Two Characteristics

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    The Four Types of Goods:Private Goods, Club Goods, Common Resources, and Public Goods
    11:08
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    Two Characteristics:Rivalry in Consumption and Excludability
    05:02

The Free Rider Problem and the Tragedy of the Commons

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    Tragedy of the Commons
    07:34
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    Free Rider Problem
    06:11

Percentage Change and Price Elasticity of Demand

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    Percentage Change and Price Elasticity of Demand
    09:14
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    Different Answers when Increasing or Decreasing Prices! (Part 1)
    04:34
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    Different Answers when Increasing or Decreasing Prices! (Part 2)
    05:31

Price Elasticity of Demand on a Graph

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    Price Elasticity of Demand on a Graph
    11:34

Total Revenue Test

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    Total Revenue Test
    09:31

Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand

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    Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand
    06:12

Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand

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    Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand
    07:14

Income Elasticity of Demand

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    Income Elasticity of Demand
    10:57

Price Elasticity of Supply

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    Price Elasticity of Supply
    05:38

Price Elasticity of Supply on a Graph

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    Price Elasticity of Supply on a Graph
    03:46

Elasticity and the Midpoint Method

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    The Midpoint Method
    10:04

Elasticity Summary

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    Elasticity Summary
    04:06

Consumer Optimum Consumption: Marginal Utility per Dollar Spent

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    Consumer Optimum Consumption: Marginal Utility per Dollar Spent
    09:38

Budget Constraint

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    Budget Constraint (Budget Line)
    08:41
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    Budget Constraint:Change in Price of a Good
    03:50
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    Budget Constraint:Change in Income
    03:44

Indifference Curves

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    Indifference Curves
    14:47
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    Properties of Indifference Curves
    04:23

Consumer Optimum Consumption: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curves

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    Consumer Optimum Consumption: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curves
    07:07

Revenue, Cost, and Profit

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    Explicit and Implicit Cost
    05:51
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    Fixed Costs and Variable Costs; Short Run and Long Run
    07:54
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    Accounting Profit and Economic Profit
    01:59

The Production Function and Diminishing Returns

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    The Production Function and Diminishing Returns
    07:45
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    Calculating Fixed Cost, Variable Cost, and Average Total Cost
    05:09

Marginal Cost

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    Marginal Cost
    10:48

The Relationship Between Average Cost and Marginal Cost

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    Average Cost and Marginal Cost
    06:38
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    Patterns of MC, AFC, AVC, and ATC curves
    08:56

Average Total Cost: Short Run and Long Run

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    ATC in the Short Run and Long Run
    13:13

Characteristics of Perfect Competition

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    Characteristics of Perfect Competition
    02:29
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    Market Demand and Individual Firm Demand
    03:57

Revenue in Perfect Competition

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    Revenue in Perfect Competition
    06:20
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    Calculating Profit from a Table
    08:15

Short Run Shutdown Decision

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    Short Run Shutdown Decision (continued)
    07:54
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    Short Run Shutdown Decision on the Graph
    07:05
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    Short Run Shutdown Decision
    03:28

Market Supply Curve in the Short Run and Long Run

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    Market Supply Curve in the Long Run
    06:07
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    Market Supply Curve in the Short Run
    03:02

Long Run Equilibrium

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    Long Run Equilibrium
    07:04

Characteristics of Monopoly

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    Monopoly Barriers to Entry
    06:29
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    Characteristics of Monopoly
    02:48
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    Monopoly Demand Curve
    04:17

Monopoly Revenue

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    Monopoly Revenue
    03:37
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    Monopoly and Marginal Revenue
    06:43

Monopoly Profit on the Graph

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    Monopoly Profit on the Graph
    07:41

Price Discrimination

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    Price Discrimination
    04:05
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    Perfect Price Discrimination
    06:11
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    Price Discrimination
    07:45

Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss

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    Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss
    12:19

Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition

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    Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition
    05:53
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    Monopolistic Competition Demand Curve
    04:25

Revenue in Monopolistic Competition

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    Monopolistic Competition Revenue
    03:28
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    Monopolistic Competition Marginal Revenue
    07:13

Monopolistic Competition Profit on the Graph

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    Monopolistic Competition Profit on the Graph
    07:07

Monopolistic Competition in the Long Run

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    Monopolistic Competition in the Long Run
    09:47
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    How Companies Stay Profitable
    01:33

Advertising

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    The Role of Advertising
    04:52

Characteristics of Oligopoly

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    Characteristics of Oligopoly
    04:45
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    Oligopoly Barriers to Entry
    05:16

Four Firm Concentration Ratio

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    Four Firm Concentration Ratio
    03:57

Mergers and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI)

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    Mergers and the HHI
    04:42

One-Time Games and the Prisoner's Dilemma

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    Game Theory, One-Time Games, and the Prisoner's Dilemma
    05:28
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    One-Time Games:Finding Dominant Strategies and Nash Equilibrium with the "Check and X"Method
    06:03
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    Dominant Strategy and the Nash Equilibrium
    06:29

Repeated Games

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    Repeated Games
    02:28

Antitrust Laws and Government Regulation of Monopolies

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    Antitrust Laws
    03:58
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    Monopoly:Socially Optimal Price and Fair-Return Price
    07:21

Asymmetric Information: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard

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    Asymmetric Information
    02:19
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    Moral Hazard
    04:03
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    Adverse Selection
    04:42

The Production Function and Marginal Revenue Product

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    The Factors of Production
    02:41
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    Marginal Revenue Product
    10:37
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    Marginal Revenue Product (Value of the Marginal Product of Labor)
    02:47

Demand for Labor in Perfect Competition

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    Demand for Labor in Perfect Competition
    04:33

Monopsony

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    Monopsony
    07:18
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    Monopsony and Minimum Wage
    03:52

Unions

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    Labor Unions
    06:50

Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient

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    Lorenz Curve and the Gini Coefficient
    11:30

Income Inequality in the USA and Worldwide

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    Income Inequality in the USA and Worldwide
    01:37

Poverty

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    Poverty
    05:02

Private Solutions to Externalities: The Coase Theorem

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    The Coase Theorem
    09:03

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Trade

    Arguments Against International Trade

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      Arguments Against International Trade
      07:50

    Import Quotas and VERs

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      Import Quotas and VERs
      14:08
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      Import Quota
      09:44

    Tariffs on Imports

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      Tariffs on Imports
      14:35