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Principles of Microeconomics

J. Gans, S. King, M. Byford and N.G. Mankiw

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Principles of Microeconomics · J. Gans, S. King, M. Byford and N.G. Mankiw

01
Ten principles of economics

How people make decisions · How people interact · How the economy as a whole works

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02
Thinking like an economist

The economist as scientist · The economist as adviser · Why economists disagree

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03
Interdependence and the gains from trade

A parable for the modern economy · Comparative advantage: The driving force of specialisation · Applications of comparative advantage

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04
The market forces of supply and demand

Markets and competition · Demand · Supply · Supply and demand together

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05
Elasticity and its application

The elasticity of demand · The elasticity of supply · Three applications of supply, demand and elasticity

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06
Supply, demand and government policies

Controls on prices · Taxes · Subsidies

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07
Consumers, producers and the efficiency of markets

Consumer surplus · Producer surplus · Market efficiency

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08
Application: The costs of taxation

The deadweight loss of taxation · The determinants of the deadweight loss · Deadweight loss and tax revenue as taxes vary

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Application: International trade

The determinants of trade · The winners and losers from trade · The arguments for restricting trade

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Externalities

Externalities and market inefficiency · Public policies on externalities · Private solutions to externalities

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Public goods and common resources

The different kinds of goods · Public goods · Common resources

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12
The design of the tax system

An overview of Australian taxation · Taxes and efficiency · Taxes and equity

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13
The costs of production

What are costs? · Production and costs · The various measures of cost · Costs in the short run and in the long run

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14
Firms in competitive markets

What is a competitive market? · Profit maximisation and the competitive firm's supply curve · The supply curve in a competitive market

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15
Monopoly

Why monopolies arise · How monopolies make production and pricing decisions · The welfare cost of monopoly · Price discrimination

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16
Monopolistic competition

Between monopoly and perfect competition · Competition with differentiated products · Advertising

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17
Oligopoly and business strategy

Markets with only a few sellers · The economics of cooperation · Public policy towards oligopolies

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18
The markets for the factors of production

The demand for labour · The supply of labour · Equilibrium in the labour market · The other factors of production: Land and capital

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19
Earnings and discrimination

Some determinants of equilibrium wages · The economics of discrimination

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20
Income inequality and poverty

The measurement of inequality · The poverty rate · The political philosophy of redistributing income · Policies to reduce poverty

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21
The theory of consumer choice

The budget constraint: What the consumer can afford · Preferences: What a consumer wants · Optimisation: What a consumer chooses · Three applications

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22
Frontiers of microeconomics

Asymmetric information · Political economy · Behavioural economics

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