Fundamentals of Micro and Macroeconomics

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Microeconomics & Macroeconom Revision

1. 📌 Essentials

  • Microeconomics studies individual agents (households, firms) and markets.
  • Macroeconomics analyzes aggregate economic variables (GDP, inflation, unemployment).
  • Market structures: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly.
  • Scarcity: limited resources vs unlimited wants.
  • Opportunity cost: value of the next best alternative foregone.
  • Law of demand: inverse relationship between price and quantity demanded.
  • Law of supply: direct relationship between price and quantity supplied.
  • Equilibrium: where supply equals demand; determines market price and quantity.
  • Elasticity: responsiveness of demand or supply to price changes.
  • Price controls: ceilings (shortages) and floors (surpluses) distort markets.

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1. What is the primary role of scarcity in economics?

2. Which of the following is a key feature that characterizes market failures?

3. What is market equilibrium in economics?

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Market structures — types?

Perfect competition, monopolistic, oligopoly, monopoly.

Scarcity — definition?

Limited resources restrict production.

Demand — law?

Higher price leads to lower quantity demanded.

Microeconomics — focus?

Studies individual agents and markets.

Macroeconomics — focus?

Analyzes aggregate economic variables.

Market structures — types?

Perfect competition, monopolistic, oligopoly, monopoly.

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