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What is Economics?
What is scarcity,
What are the three broad categori...,
What factors dose the resource of...
27
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The Complexity of Modern Economies
What is an economy,
Who organized the economy,
How is a market economy self orga...
35
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Is There an Alternative to the Market Economy?
What are three typos of economic ...,
What is a traditional economy,
What is a command economy
9
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Positive and Normative Statements
What is a normative statement,
What is a positive statement,
What dose the difference between ...
3
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Building and Testing Economic Theories
What are theories models,
What are variables,
What is a endogenous variable
15
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Economic Data
What is an index number,
How do we build an index number,
What is the formula for an index ...
9
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Graphing Economic Theories
What are theories built on,
What is a function and a function...,
What are the different ways we ca...
12
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Demand
What is a flow variable,
What is quantity demanded,
It is important to notice two thi...
34
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Supply
What is a general rule of thumb b...,
What is quantity supplied,
What is the difference between qu...
29
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The Determination of Price
Three conditions must be satisfie...,
For the sake of this course what ...,
What is a way that individual mar...
27
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4.1 Price Elasticity of Demand
When would we consider demand to ...,
When would we consider demand to ...,
What conditions must be fulfilled...
30
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4.2 Price Elasticity of Supply
What is price elasticity of supply,
Why do supply curves all have pos...,
At what points on the supply curv...
10
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4.3 Elasticity Matters for Excise Taxes
What is excise tax,
When dose excise tax occur
9
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4.4 Other Demand Elasticities
What are factors other then price...,
What is income elasticity of demand,
What is a normal good
11
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5.1 Government-Controlled Prices
What are government price controls,
When controls hold the price at s...,
What is a price floor
21
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5.2 Rent Controls: A Case Study of Price Ceilings
Why dose a shortage of rental hou...,
What dose a shortage in rental ac...,
What are some ways a black market...
23
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5.3 An Introduction to Market Efficiency
What dose the price of each unit ...,
What dose the lowest acceptable p...,
What is the reason the market sup...
29
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6.1 Marginal Utility and Consumer Choice
What is utility,
What is total utility,
What is marginal utility
13
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6A.1 Indifference Curves
What is an indifference curve,
What do the points above the curv...,
What do points below the indiffer...
13
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6.2 Income and Substitution Effects of Price Changes
What is purchasing power or real ...,
What is the substitution effect,
What does the substitution effect do
13
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6.3 Consumer Surplus
What is consumer surplus,
What is consumer surplus the diff...,
What do we call the sum of the va...
14
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6A.2 The Budget Line
What is a budget line and what do...,
The budget line has several impor...,
How do we measure the opportunity...
3
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7.1 What Are Firms?
What are ethe 6 different ways a ...,
What is a single proprietorship,
What is an ordinary partnership
23
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7.2 Production, Costs, and Profits
What dose each firm require to pr...,
What are the four broad categorie...,
What are intermediate products
34
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7.3 Production in the Short Run
What are fixed factors of production,
What are variable inputs,
The relation of output to changes...
12
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7.4 Costs in the Short Run
What are the different types of s...,
What is total cost tc,
What is total fixed cost tfc
17
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6A.3 The Consumer’s Utility-Maximizing Choices
Where is a consumers utility maxi...,
What is an income consumption line,
What does an income consumption l...
4
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8.1 The Long Run: No Fixed Factors
What is the difference between th...,
What is technical efficency,
What is an example of technical i...
24
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8.2 The Very Long Run: Changes in Technology
What changes dose improvements in...,
What is technological change,
What is the notion of productivity
14
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8A.1 Isoquants
What is an isoquant,
What is happening when we move fr...,
What is the marginal rate of subs...
13
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8A.2 Cost Minimization
What is an isocost line,
What does the slope of each isoco...,
What dose a series of parallel is...
13
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9.1 Market Structure and Firm Behaviour
What is market structure,
What is market power,
What does competitiveness in the ...
8
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9.2 The Theory of Perfect Competition
What is perfect competition,
What are the 5 assumptions of a p...,
What his a homogenous product
10
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9.3 Short-Run Decisions
Formula for economic profit,
What does it mean when a firm is ...,
What are the two questions we sho...
22
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9.4 Long-Run Decisions
How is the short long run of a si...,
What is zero profit equilibrium,
How do positive profits in an ind...
22
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10.1 A Single-Price Monopolist
What is a monopoly,
What is a monopolist,
What is a monopolist
34
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10.2 Cartels and Monopoly Power
What is a cartel,
What is a second way that a monop...,
If firms come together to form a ...
10
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10.3 Price Discrimination
What is price discrimination,
What is the difference between di...,
When is price discrimination poss...
18
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11.1 Imperfect Competition
What is an imperfectly competitiv...,
What are two common types of indu...,
What kind of industry is the majo...
20
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11.2 Monopolistic Competition
What is monopolistic competition,
This market structure is similar ...,
How is this market structure simi...
10
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11.3 Oligopoly and Game Theory
What is a oligopoly,
What kind of concentration ration...,
How is an oligopoly similar to a ...
16
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1.4 Oligopoly in Practice
What is collusion,
What is overt or covert collusion,
What is tacit collusion
12
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16.1 Basic Functions of Government
What is the governments monopoly ...,
Why is it important for the gover...,
According the adam smith what is ...
3
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16.2 The Case for Free Markets
Why are free markets impressive i...,
How do markets determine the dist...,
How have modern market economies ...
6
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16.3 Market Failures
What is market failure,
Is the statement that the economy...,
What are the four situations in w...
28
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16.4 Broader Social Goals
Describe the distribution of inco...,
Explain the difference between te...,
Example of a preference for publi...
6
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16.5 Government Intervention
How do governments determine whet...,
What is cost benefit analysis,
What are the three reasons it can...
16
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32.1 The Gains from Trade
What is a closed economy,
What are the basic benefits of trade,
What are gains from trade
24
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32.2 The Determination of Trade Patterns
What is the law of one price,
When do exports occur,
What kinds of goods are best for ...
12
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33.1 Free Trade or Protection?
What is a tariff,
What are non tariff barriers,
How does free trade affect a country
14
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33.2 Methods of Protection
What is a tariff,
Who takes on the deadweight loss ...,
What are the two ways domestic co...
13
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33.3 Current Trade Policy
What is an fta,
What is a customs union,
What is a common market
5
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