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Microeconomics Study Notes: Trade, Externalities, Taxation, Factor Markets, Monopoly, and Oligopoly

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Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) - Introduction and Productive Efficiency

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

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

Exporting and Importing

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    Low World Price:Import
    06:36
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    Autarky
    04:
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    High World Price:Export
    09:03

Arguments Against International Trade

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    Arguments Against International Trade
    07:50

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

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
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    Free Rider Problem
    06:11

Public Goods: Demand Curve and Optimal Quantity

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

Introducing Taxes and Tax Incidence

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    Tax Incidence
    03:21
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    Taxes and Tax Incidence
    13:27

Effects of Taxes on a Market

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    Effects of Taxes
    07:49
  • Tax Revenue
    03:59

Subsidies

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    Subsidies
    09:29

Tax Equity

  • Guided course
    Regressive, Proportional, and Progressive Taxes
    04:18
  • Guided course
    Tax Equity
    06:42

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

Factors of Production

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

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 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
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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

Supply of Labor in Perfect Competition

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

Shifts in Labor Supply

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    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

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

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

Game Theory and Oligopoly Profit

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    Oligopoly Profit
    06:36
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    Oligopoly Profit
    10:08

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 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