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0. Basic Principles of Economics
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Introduction to Economics
People Are Rational
People Respond to Incentives
Scarcity and Choice
Marginal Analysis
Allocative Efficiency, Productive Efficiency, and Equality
Positive and Normative Analysis
Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics
Factors of Production
Circular Flow Diagram
Graphing Review
Percentage and Decimal Review
Fractions Review
1. Reading and Understanding Graphs
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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
2. Introductory Economic Models
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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
3. The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
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Competitive Markets
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
Supply and Demand: Quantitative Analysis
4. Elasticity
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Percentage Change and Price Elasticity of Demand
Elasticity and the Midpoint Method
Price Elasticity of Demand on a Graph
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
Price Elasticity of Supply
Price Elasticity of Supply on a Graph
Elasticity Summary
5. Consumer and Producer Surplus; Price Ceilings and Floors
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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
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
6. Introduction to Taxes and Subsidies
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Introducing Taxes and Tax Incidence
Effects of Taxes on a Market
Elasticity and Taxes
Subsidies
The Laffer Curve
Quantitative Analysis of Taxes
Tax Efficiency
Tax Equity
7. Externalities
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Externalities: Social Benefits and Social Costs
Public Solutions to Externalities
Private Solutions to Externalities: The Coase Theorem
8. The Types of Goods
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Four Types of Goods and Two Characteristics
The Free Rider Problem and the Tragedy of the Commons
Public Goods: Demand Curve and Optimal Quantity
9. International Trade
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Exporting and Importing
Sources of Comparative Advantage
Tariffs on Imports
Import Quotas and VERs
Arguments Against International Trade
10. The Costs of Production
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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
11. Perfect Competition
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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
12. Monopoly
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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
13. Monopolistic Competition
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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
14. Oligopoly
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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
15. Markets for the Factors of Production
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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
Unions
Monopsony
Bilateral Monopoly
16. Income Inequality and Poverty
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Income Inequality in the USA and Worldwide
Poverty
Polices to Reduce Poverty
Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient
Income Equality and Efficiency
17. Asymmetric Information, Voting, and Public Choice
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Asymmetric Information: Adverse Selection and Moral Hazard
Solutions to Informational Problems
Median Voter Theorem
Condorcet Voting Paradox
18. Consumer Choice and Behavioral Economics
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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
Unions
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Firms, the Stock Market, and Corporate Governance
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Health Care
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Uncertainty and Risk
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Balance of Payments
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Exchange Rates
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Rent, Interest, and Profit (Brue)
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Measuring National Output and Income (MACROECONOMICS)
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Expenditure Approach for Measuring GDP
Detailed Explanation of GDP Components
Nominal GDP and Real GDP
Calculating GDP Using the Income Approach
Value Added Method for Measuring GDP
Shortcomings of GDP
Other Measures of Total Production and Total Income
Unemployment and Inflation (MACROECONOMICS)
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Labor Force and Unemployment
Types of Unemployment
Unemployment: Minimum Wage Laws and Efficiency Wages
Inflation and Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Using CPI to Adjust for Inflation
Problems with the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Nominal Income and Real Income
Nominal Interest, Real Interest, and the Fisher Equation
Who is Affected by Inflation?
Demand-Pull and Cost-Push Inflation
Costs of Inflation: Shoe-leather Costs and Menu Costs
Productivity and Economic Growth (MACROECONOMICS)
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Long-Run Economic Growth
Productivity and the Per-Worker Production Function
Institutions that Promote Economic Growth
Growth Rates and the Rule of 70
New Growth Theory
PPF - Growth Analysis
Business Cycles and Their Characteristics
The Financial System (MACROECONOMICS)
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Investment, Savings, and the Financial System
Savings Equal Investment
Market for Loanable Funds
Shifts in the Market for Loanable Funds
Stocks, Bonds, and Mutual Funds
Risk and Insurance
Risk and Diversification
Time Value of Money Calculations
Calculating Bond and Stock Prices
Income and Consumption (MACROECONOMICS)
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The Consumption Function
The Saving Function
Determinants of Consumption and Saving
Average Propensity to Consume and Save
Multiplier Effect of Investment Spending
Deriving the Aggregate Expenditures Model (MACROECONOMICS)
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Aggregate Expenditures Model and Macroeconomic Equilibrium
AE Model: Graphing Macroeconomic Equilibrium
AE Model: Private Closed Economy
AE Model: Private Open Economy
AE Model and the Multiplier
AE Model: Algebraic Approach
Deriving the Multiplier Algebraically
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply Analysis (MACROECONOMICS)
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Aggregate Demand
Deriving Aggregate Demand from the Aggregate Expenditure Model
Shifting Aggregate Demand
Long Run Aggregate Supply
Short Run Aggregate Supply
Shifting Short Run Aggregate Supply
AD-AS Model: Equilibrium in the Short Run and Long Run
AD-AS Model: Shifts in Aggregate Demand
The Monetary System (MACROECONOMICS)
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The Functions of Money; The Kinds of Money
Defining the Money Supply: M1 and M2
Required Reserves and the Deposit Multiplier
Introduction to the Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve and the Money Supply
History of the US Banking System
The Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 (The Great Recession)
Monetary Policy (MACROECONOMICS)
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Monetary vs Fiscal Policy
Goals of Monetary Policy
The Demand for Money
The Money Supply on the Graph
Monetary Policy and Aggregate Demand
Expansionary and Contractionary Monetary Policy
Taylor Rule
Quantity Theory of Money
Federal Reserve Policies during the 2007-2009 Recession
Fiscal Policy (MACROECONOMICS)
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Introduction to Fiscal Policy
Expansionary and Contractionary Fiscal Policy
Government Purchases and the Multiplier Effect
Taxes, the Multiplier Effect, and Automatic Stabilizers
Long Run Effects of Fiscal Policy
Criticisms of Fiscal Policy
Tradeoffs Between Inflation and Unemployment (MACROECONOMICS)
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Short Run Phillips Curve
Long Run Phillips Curve
Phillips Curve and Expected Inflation
Phillips Curve and Supply Shocks
Sacrifice Ratio
Disinflation and Deflation
Open-Economy Macroeconomics (MACROECONOMICS)
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Balance of Payments: Introduction
Balance of Payments: Current Account
Balance of Payments: Financial Account and Capital Account
Net Exports Equal Net Foreign Investment
Balance of Trade; Trade Deficit and Trade Surplus
Exchange Rates: Introduction
Exchange Rates: Nominal and Real
Exchange Rates: Equilibrium
Exchange Rates: Shifts in Supply and Demand
Exchange Rates and Net Exports
Exchange Rates: Purchasing Power Parity
The Gold Standard
The Bretton Woods System
Macroeconomic Schools of Thought (MACROECONOMICS)
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Classical Model and Keynesian Model
Monetarist Model
New Classical Model
Real Business Cycle Model
Austrian Model
Communism and Karl Marx
Dynamic AD/AS Model (MACROECONOMICS)
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Dynamic AD-AS Model: Introduction
Dynamic AD-AS Model: Inflation and Recession
Dynamic AD-AS Model: Fiscal Policy
Dynamic AD-AS Model: Monetary Policy
15. Markets for the Factors of Production
Monopsony
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Monopsony
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Multiple Choice
Which of the following is true of a monopsony in a labor market?
Multiple Choice
The monopsonist's marginal factor (resource) cost curve for labor is:
Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements about a monopsonistic labor market is true?
Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a consequence of a monopsony labor market?