Index of Microeconomic Topics

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adjustment process, also
adverse selection
all-or-nothing demand curve
arbitrage

barriers to entry
black market
budget constraint, also

central planning also
circular flow
comparative advantage
complementary good
consumer sovereignty
consumers' surplus
contestable markets
contingent behavior
coupon rationing

derived demand
division of labor
dollar voting
duopoly

economic rent (see producers' surplus )
egalitarian position
elasticity, cross-price
elasticity, income
elasticity, price
entrepreneur
equimarginal principle
excise tax
external effects

fairness
Federal Trade Commission, 219
feedback
Food and Drug Administration
free riders

general equilibrium analysis

in-kind vs cash transfers
income effect on demand
income vs substitution effects
income-compensated demand curve
indifference curve
infant-industry argument
inferior good
insurance
intensity of preferences
Interstate Commerce Commission
invisible hand
isoquants

law of diminishing returns
law of diminishing utility
Lorenz curve
Luddites

marginal rate of substitution
marginal rate of transformation
marginal revenue
market failure
mark-up pricing
minimum wage
monopolistic competition
monopoly
monopsony
moral hazard

natural monopoly
nonprofit organizations

oligopoly

paradox of value
Pareto optimality
pollution taxes
postive and normative economics
present value
price ceilings and floors
price discrimination
price maker/searcher
price taker, AAA
principal-agent problem
prisoner's dilemma
problem of the commons
producers' surplus
production function
production-possibilities frontier
progressive vs regressive taxes
public good, also

quasi-rationality
queuing
quota

rational ignorance
rent controls
rent seeking
returns to scale

screening
self interest
Sherman Antitrust Act
shifting taxes
signalling
social welfare loss, (see welfare loss )
speculation
substitute good

tariff
tournament theory

unstable equilibrium
utility,
utopia and scarcity

value-added tax

welfare loss

zero-sum game 

 

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