Introduction to Economics
Positive and Normative Analysis
Scarcity and Choice
Production Possibilities Frontier (PPF) - Introduction and Productive Efficiency
PPF - Increasing Marginal Opportunity Costs and Allocative Efficiency
PPF - Outward Shifts
PPF - Comparative Advantage and Absolute Advantage
PPF - Comparative Advantage and Trade
PPF - The Price of the Trade
People Are Rational
People Respond to Incentives
The Demand Curve
Shifts in the Demand Curve
Movement Along a Demand Curve
The Supply Curve
Shifts in the Supply Curve
Movement Along a Supply Curve
Market Equilibrium
Using the Supply and Demand Curves to Find Equilibrium
Effects of Surplus
Effects of Shortage
Price Ceilings, Price Floors, and Black Markets
Quantitative Analysis of Price Ceilings and Price Floors: Finding Points
Quantitative Analysis of Price Ceilings and Price Floors: Finding Areas
Percentage and Decimal Review
Fractions Review
Graphing Review
Graphs of Two Variables
Relationships between Variables
Interpreting Graphs, Correlation, Causation, and Omitted Variables
Slope of Linear Graphs
Slope of a Curve at a Point
Finding the Maximum and Minimum Points on Graphs
Percentage and Decimal Review
Fractions Review
Areas of Shapes
Price Elasticity of Demand on a Graph
Price Elasticity of Supply
Price Elasticity of Supply on a Graph
Elasticity and the Midpoint Method
Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand
Total Revenue Test
Total Revenue Along a Linear Demand Curve
Income Elasticity of Demand
Cross-Price Elasticity of Demand
Elasticity Summary
Consumer Surplus and Willingness to Pay
Producer Surplus and Willingness to Sell
Economic Surplus and Efficiency
Quantitative Analysis of Consumer and Producer Surplus at Equilibrium
Introducing Taxes and Tax Incidence
Effects of Taxes on a Market
Elasticity and Taxes
The Laffer Curve
Quantitative Analysis of Taxes
Tax Efficiency
Tax Equity
Externalities: Social Benefits and Social Costs
Public Solutions to Externalities
Private Solutions to Externalities: The Coase Theorem
Four Types of Goods and Two Characteristics
The Free Rider Problem and the Tragedy of the Commons
Public Goods: Demand Curve and Optimal Quantity
Exporting and Importing
Sources of Comparative Advantage
Tariffs on Imports
Import Quotas and VERs
Arguments Against International Trade
Revenue, Cost, and Profit
The Production Function and Diminishing Returns
Marginal Cost
The Relationship Between Average Cost and Marginal Cost
Graphing Costs
Average Total Cost: Short Run and Long Run
Isoquant Lines
Isocost Lines
Cost-Minimizing Combination of Labor and Capital
Introduction to the Four Market Models
Characteristics of Perfect Competition
Revenue in Perfect Competition
Perfect Competition Profit on the Graph
Short Run Shutdown Decision
Long Run Entry and Exit Decision
Individual Supply Curve in the Short Run and Long Run
Market Supply Curve in the Short Run and Long Run
Long Run Equilibrium
Perfect Competition and Efficiency
Four Market Model Summary: Perfect Competition
Characteristics of Monopoly
Monopoly Revenue
Monopoly Profit on the Graph
Monopoly Efficiency and Deadweight Loss
Price Discrimination
Antitrust Laws and Government Regulation of Monopolies
Mergers and the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI)
Four Firm Concentration Ratio
Four Market Model Summary: Monopoly
Characteristics of Monopolistic Competition
Revenue in Monopolistic Competition
Monopolistic Competition Profit on the Graph
Monopolistic Competition in the Long Run
Efficiency in Monopolistic Competition
Advertising
Four Market Model Summary: Monopolistic Competition
Characteristics of Oligopoly
One-Time Games and the Prisoner's Dilemma
Game Theory and Oligopoly Profit
Repeated Games
Kinked-Demand Theory
Four Market Model Summary: Oligopoly
The Production Function and Marginal Revenue Product
Demand for Labor in Perfect Competition
Shifts in Labor Demand
Supply of Labor in Perfect Competition
Shifts in Labor Supply
Differences in Wages
Other Factors of Production: Land and Capital
Monopsony
Bilateral Monopoly
Income Inequality in the USA and Worldwide
Polices to Reduce Poverty
Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient
Income Equality and Efficiency
Asymmetric Information: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard
Solutions to Informational Problems
Budget Constraint
Indifference Curves
Indifference Curves for Perfect Substitutes and Perfect Complements
Consumer Optimum Consumption: Budget Constraint and Indifference Curves
Consumer Optimum Consumption: Marginal Utility per Dollar Spent