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Microeconomics Course Structure and Key Topics

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Scarcity and Choice

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

Factors of Production

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    Human Capital and Entrepreneurship
    02:08
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    Land, Labor, and Physical Capital
    03:09

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

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

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

Marginal Cost

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    Marginal Cost
    10:48

Graphing Costs

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    Graphing Cost Curves
    10:54

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

Perfect Competition Profit on the Graph

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    Profit on the Graph in Perfect Competition
    13:25

Individual Supply Curve in the Short Run and Long Run

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    Individual Firm Supply Curve in the Long Run
    03:12
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    Individual Firm Supply Curve in the Short Run
    03:19

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

Perfect Competition and Efficiency

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    Efficiency in Perfect Competition
    06:46

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

Shifts in Labor Demand

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    Shifts in Labor Demand:Technological Change (II)
    03:09
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    Shifts in Labor Demand:Output Price
    06:57
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    Shifts in Labor Demand:Technological Change (I)
    03:01

Other Factors of Production: Land and Capital

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    Other Factors of Production: Capital
    02:08
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    Other Factors of Production: Land
    03:31

Introduction to the Four Market Models

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    Four Market Model Summary
    02:25

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

Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss

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    Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss
    12:19

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

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

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

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

Game Theory and Oligopoly Profit

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    Oligopoly Profit
    06:36
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    Oligopoly Profit
    10:08

Mergers and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI)

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    Mergers and the HHI
    04:42

Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition

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

Advertising

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    The Role of Advertising
    04:52

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

Efficiency in Monopolistic Competition

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    Monopolistic Competition Productive Efficiency
    03:54
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    Monopolistic Competition Allocative Efficiency
    02:56

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

Public Solutions to Externalities

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    Public Solutions to Externalities:Quantity Limits
    04:07
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    Public Solutions to Externalities:Command-and-Control Policies and Corrective Pigovian Taxes and Subsidies
    16:25