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Microeconomics Midterm Study Guide: Core Principles and Applications

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Introduction to Economics

Scarcity and Choice

Positive and Normative Analysis

Microeconomics vs. Macroeconomics

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

    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

    Effects of Surplus

    Effects of Shortage

    Consumer Surplus and Willingness to Pay

    Producer Surplus and Willingness to Sell

    Economic Surplus and Efficiency

    Price Ceilings, Price Floors, and Black Markets

    Quantitative Analysis of Price Ceilings and Price Floors: Finding Areas

    Introducing Taxes and Tax Incidence

    Effects of Taxes on a Market

    Price Elasticity of Demand on a Graph

    Elasticity and the Midpoint Method

    Percentage Change and Price Elasticity of Demand

    Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand

    Total Revenue Test

    Income Elasticity of Demand

    Price Elasticity of Supply

    Elasticity Summary

    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

    Median Voter Theorem

    Condorcet Voting Paradox