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Macroeconomics

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Deals with aggregate economic quantities, such as national output and national income, and is rooted in microeconomics

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Equilibrium price

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The quantity willingly demanded by consumers at that
price is just equal to the quantity willingly supplied by firms

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Microeconomics

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Deals with markets and decision making of individual economic units, including consumers and businesses. Microeconomics is a logical starting point for the study of economics

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Microeconomics classifies private economic units inro what two groups

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  1. Consumers (or households)
  2. Firms
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Law of Demand

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The believe that as the price of a good rises, buyers will choose to buy less of it and as its price falls, they buy more.

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Theory of the Consumer

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Deals with consumption (the demand of goods and services) by utility-maximizing individuals (i.e., individuals who make decisions that maximize the satisfaction received from present and future consumption.

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Three important topics concerning the demand side of the model:

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  1. Elasticities
  2. Substitution and Income Effects
  3. Normal and Inferior Goods
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The Theory of the Firm

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Deals with the supply of goods and services by profit-maximizing firms

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