Why study economics? Scope and method of economics
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The economic problem: scarcity and choice
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The question of what to produce, how to produce and how to distribute output
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Science of economics; the basic competitive model
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Prices, property rights and profits; incentives and information
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Rationing; opportunity sets; economic systems
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Markets and competition; determinants of individual demand/supply
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Demand and supply schedules and curves
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Market versus individual demand/supply
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Shifts in the demand/supply curve
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Price and resource allocation
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Elasticity and its application
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Controls on prices; taxes and the costs of taxation
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Consumer surplus and producer surplus
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Chapter 3
The Households
The consumption decision - budget constraint
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Consumption and income/price changes
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Demand for all other goods and price changes
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Description of preferences (representing preferences with indifference curves)
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Properties of indifference curves; consumer's optimum choice
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Income and substitution effects
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Labour supply and savings decision - choice between leisure and consumption
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Behaviour of profit maximizing firms and the production process
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Short run costs and output decisions
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Costs and output in the long run
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The long run supply curve
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Equilibrium in perfectly competitive markets
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Profit maximization in competitive markets
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Chapter 5
Imperfect Market Structure
Monopoly and anti-trust policy
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Monopolistic competition
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Government policies towards competition
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Imperfect competition
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Oligopoly theory overview
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Different market structures in comparison to perfect competition
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