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Microeconomics Study Notes: Core Principles, Markets, and Welfare

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Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) - Introduction and Productive Efficiency

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

PPF - Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs and Allocative Efficiency

  • PPF - Graphing Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs
    03:33
  • PPF - The Law of Increasing Opportunity Costs
    05:04

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage

  • Opportunity Costs and Comparative Advantage
    04:36
  • Different PPFs and Absolute Advantage
    02:03

PPF - Comparative Advantage and Trade

  • Comparative Advantage and Specialization in Trade
    05:30

PPF - The Price of the Trade

  • Guided course
    The Price of the Trade
    03:47

Introduction to Supply and Demand

  • Perfect Competition
    03:23

The Basics of Demand

  • The Basics of Demand
    06:02

Shifting Demand

  • Consumer Income: Normal Goods and Inferior Goods
    01:30
  • Consumer Preferences
    01:44
  • Number of Consumers
    02:15

Individual Demand and Market Demand

  • Individual and Market Demand
    03:59

The Basics of Supply

  • The Basics of Supply
    02:43

Shifting Supply

  • Guided course
    Nature
    01:
  • Technology
    01:39
  • Shifting Supply
    01:56

Individual Supply and Market Supply

  • Guided course
    Individual Supply and Market Supply
    06:04

Overview of Supply and Demand Shifts

  • Guided course
    Overview of Supply and Demand Shifts
    04:07

Supply and Demand Together: Equilibrium, Shortage, and Surplus

  • Law of Supply and Demand
    02:43
  • Equilibrium
    02:41

Revenue, Cost, and Profit

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

Marginal Cost

  • Guided course
    Marginal Cost
    10:48

Willingness to Pay and Consumer Surplus

  • Consumer Surplus and Market Demand
    06:03
  • Consumer Surplus
    02:15
  • Willingness to Pay and Consumer Surplus
    03:39

Willingness to Sell and Producer Surplus

  • Willingness to Sell and Producer Surplus
    03:04
  • Producer Surplus and Market Supply
    04:03
  • Producer Surplus
    01:30

Economic Surplus and Efficiency

  • Guided course
    Deadweight Loss and Market Failure
    07:08
  • Guided course
    Economic Surplus
    11:40

Price Ceilings, Price Floors, and Black Markets

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

Externalities: Social Benefits and Social Costs

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

Public Solutions to Externalities

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

Four Types of Goods and Two Characteristics

  • The Four Types of Goods: Private Goods, Club Goods, Common Resources, and Public Goods
    05:41
  • Rivalry and Excludability
    04:47

The Free Rider Problem and the Tragedy of the Commons

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

Public Goods: Demand Curve and Optimal Quantity

  • Guided course
    Demand Curve of a Public Good
    08:18
  • Guided course
    Demand Curve of a Private Good
    03:52

Introduction to the Four Market Models

  • Guided course
    Four Market Model Summary
    02:25

Characteristics of Perfect Competition

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

Revenue in Perfect Competition

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

Perfect Competition Profit on the Graph

  • Guided course
    Profit on the Graph in Perfect Competition
    13:25

Short Run Shutdown Decision

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

Long Run Entry and Exit Decision

  • Guided course
    Long Run Exit/Enter Decision (continued)
    06:04
  • Guided course
    Long Run Exit/Enter Decision
    02:39
  • Guided course
    Long Run Exit/Enter Decision on the Graph
    09:32

Long Run Equilibrium

  • Guided course
    Long Run Equilibrium
    07:04

Perfect Competition and Efficiency

  • Guided course
    Efficiency in Perfect Competition
    06:46

Characteristics of Monopoly

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

Monopoly Revenue

  • Guided course
    Monopoly Revenue
    03:37
  • Guided course
    Monopoly and Marginal Revenue
    06:43

Monopoly Profit on the Graph

  • Guided course
    Monopoly Profit on the Graph
    07:41

Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss

  • Guided course
    Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss
    12:19

Price Discrimination

  • Guided course
    Price Discrimination
    04:05
  • Guided course
    Perfect Price Discrimination
    06:11
  • Guided course
    Price Discrimination
    07:45

Four Market Model Summary: Perfect Competition

  • Guided course
    Four Market Model Summary: Perfect Competition
    05:02

Four Market Model Summary: Monopoly

  • Guided course
    Four Market Model Summary: Monopoly
    04:34

Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition

  • Guided course
    Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition
    05:53
  • Guided course
    Monopolistic Competition Demand Curve
    04:25

Revenue in Monopolistic Competition

  • Guided course
    Monopolistic Competition Revenue
    03:28
  • Guided course
    Monopolistic Competition Marginal Revenue
    07:13

Monopolistic Competition Profit on the Graph

  • Guided course
    Monopolistic Competition Profit on the Graph
    07:07

Monopolistic Competition in the Long Run

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

Efficiency in Monopolistic Competition

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    Monopolistic Competition Productive Efficiency
    03:54
  • Guided course
    Monopolistic Competition Allocative Efficiency
    02:56

Advertising

  • Guided course
    The Role of Advertising
    04:52

Four Market Model Summary: Monopolistic Competition

  • Guided course
    Four Market Model Summary: Monopolistic Competition
    03:30

Characteristics of Oligopoly

  • Guided course
    Characteristics of Oligopoly
    04:45
  • Guided course
    Oligopoly Barriers to Entry
    05:16

One-Time Games and the Prisoner's Dilemma

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

Kinked-Demand Theory

  • Guided course
    Oligopoly:Kinked Demand Theory
    13:04

Four Market Model Summary: Oligopoly

  • Guided course
    Four Market Model Summary: Oligopoly
    03:39

The Production Function and Marginal Revenue Product

  • Guided course
    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

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

Supply of Labor in Perfect Competition

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    Supply of Labor in Perfect Competition
    03:17
  • Guided course
    Individual Supply Curve of Labor (Backward-Bending Supply Curve)
    04:34

Shifts in Labor Supply

  • Guided course
    Shifts in Labor Supply
    03:47

Differences in Wages

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    Differences in Wages:Efficiency Wages and Superstars
    04:12
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    Differences in Wages:Compensating Differential and Human Capital
    02:39

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

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

Polices to Reduce Poverty

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    Policies to Reduce Poverty
    06:15

Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient

  • Guided course
    Lorenz Curve and the Gini Coefficient
    11:30

Income Equality and Efficiency

  • Guided course
    Income Equality and Efficiency
    06:41