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Microeconomics
Markets, Methods & Models
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
iii
Part One: The Building Blocks
3
1 Introduction to key ideas
5
1.1 What's it all about? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2 Understanding through the use of models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.3 Opportunity cost and the market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.4 A model of exchange and specialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
1.5 Economy-wide production possibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.6 Aggregate output, growth and business cycles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
End of chapter exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
2 Theories, models and data
27
2.1 Observations, theories and models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.2 Variables, data and index numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
2.3 Testing economic models & analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
2.4 Diagrams and economic analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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iv Table of Contents 2.5 Ethics, efficiency and beliefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 End of chapter exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3 The classical marketplace ? demand and supply
57
3.1 Trading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3.2 The market's building blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
3.3 Demand and supply curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3.4 Other influences on demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
3.5 Other influences on supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
3.6 Simultaneous supply and demand impacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
3.7 Market interventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
3.8 Individual and market functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Key terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
End of chapter exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Part Two: Responsiveness and the Value of Markets
87
4 Measures of response: elasticities
89
4.1 Price responsiveness of demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
4.2 Price elasticity and expenditure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
4.3 The time horizon and inflation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
4.4 Cross-price elasticities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
4.5 The income elasticity of demand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
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