Economics Flashcards
Macroeconomics
Deals with aggregate economic quantities, such as national output and national income, and is rooted in microeconomics
Equilibrium price
The quantity willingly demanded by consumers at that
price is just equal to the quantity willingly supplied by firms
Microeconomics
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
Microeconomics classifies private economic units inro what two groups
- Consumers (or households)
- Firms
Law of Demand
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.
Theory of the Consumer
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.
Three important topics concerning the demand side of the model:
- Elasticities
- Substitution and Income Effects
- Normal and Inferior Goods
The Theory of the Firm
Deals with the supply of goods and services by profit-maximizing firms