
Explore micro and macroeconomics foundations, demand and supply analysis, price determination, elasticity, and key market structures including monopoly, oligopoly, monopolistic competition, and perfect competition.
this lecture clarifies the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics, comparing small-scale individual decisions with large-scale national indicators like gdp, unemployment, and inflation.
The lecture contrasts economic laws with social laws, situating them in microeconomics and macroeconomics, and explains how assumptions and conditions shape economic analysis.
Explore economic models as simplified versions of reality to observe and predict behavior. Identify exogenous and endogenous variables, such as income and consumption, and show how price affects quantity demanded.
Explore how the consumer side of economics defines demand and desire, and show how willingness and purchasing power shape budgeted purchases.
Explain the law of demand and the negative relationship between price and quantity demanded, holding everything else constant, using the demand schedule and the demand curve.
Explore how price changes trigger extension and contraction of demand and the rise and fall of quantity demanded along the demand curve.
Learn how price changes cause movement along the demand curve. Discover how non-price factors like income and tastes shift the demand curve, creating multiple demand curves.
Understand the supply side versus stock: supply is everything produced and offered for sale at a price, while stock is goods produced but not yet priced or sold.
Learn how the supply curve moves along due to price changes and when external factors like input prices or technology shift the entire curve right or left.
The law of supply, holding all else constant, links price to quantity supplied, with higher prices boosting quantity, and is shown by supply schedules, tables, and curves shaping market supply.
Explore how factors such as input and raw material prices, electricity prices, labor, production costs, technology, substitutes, and future prices shift the supply curve.
Explore mathematically how demand and supply determine market equilibrium using equations and graphs, identifying inverse and direct relationships and solving for equilibrium price and quantity.
Explore market equilibrium by graphically illustrating the intersection of supply and demand. Analyze shortages and surpluses at the equilibrium price and quantity.
Explore how a rise in supply shifts the supply curve right and changes price and quantity at market equilibrium. Understand leftward shifts and other factors that can alter market outcomes.
Explore how supply and demand curves shift outward and to the right, producing new equilibria with changing prices and quantities, and how initial equilibrium adapts.
Set the demand and supply equal using q_d = 8 - p and q_s = 2 + 0.02 p to find the equilibrium price and quantity.
Learn how to find the equilibrium price and quantity by equating demand and supply, form a quadratic equation, and solve it using factorization or the quadratic formula.
Explore elasticity of demand with respect to price, showing how quantity demanded responds to price changes using midpoint percentage change and related derivatives.
Explore income elasticity of demand and its role in distinguishing normal and inferior goods, and relate it to price elasticity of demand and percentage changes in income and price.
Explain elasticity of demand and the elastic demand curve, where percentage change in quantity demanded exceeds percentage change in price (elasticity greater than one), indicating a flatter demand curve.
Explore elasticity concepts in microeconomics, focusing on inelastic demand, its steep curve, and discussions of elastic, perfect elastic, and unit elastic cases, with a percentage-change formula and negative sign ignored.
Explore the perfectly elastic demand curve, showing infinite elasticity when price changes are zero and demand is horizontal; contrast with perfect inelastic demand and key elasticity concepts.
Explore perfect inelastic demand, where price changes do not affect quantity demanded, yielding zero price elasticity and a vertical demand curve.
Explore cross elasticity of demand, showing how the quantity demanded of one good responds to price changes in another, with substitutes and complements illustrated by petrol and gasoline.
Explore elasticity of demand on a single demand curve, including point and midpoint elasticity, price-quantity relationships, and when elasticity exceeds or falls below one.
Explore cross elasticity of demand, including positive, negative, and zero cases, with examples of substitute and complementary goods and the relevant formula.
Explore income elasticity of demand, defined as the percent change in quantity demanded divided by the percent change in income, and classify goods as normal, inferior, or luxury goods.
Explore the price elasticity of supply and how price changes trigger supply response, outlined through the formula: percentage change in supply divided by percentage change in price.
We discuss the elastic supply curve, showing how price changes lead to larger supply changes, with elasticity of supply greater than one and a relatively flat, or horizontal, supply curve.
Explore elasticity of supply with the inelastic supply curve, showing how a price change (for example 20%) leads to a supply change (about 5%), illustrating a steeper, inelastic supply curve.
Explore the perfect elastic supply curve where any price change yields supply changes, producing a horizontal supply curve and infinite price elasticity; discuss perfect versus inelastic supply and real-life feasibility.
Explore the perfect inelastic supply curve in microeconomics, showing that price changes do not alter quantity supplied, yielding a vertical supply curve and illustrating the elasticity of supply.
Explore exceptional supply curves, including vertical supply scenarios where price changes do not alter quantity supplied, and backward bending supply curves in the labor market.
Examine the law of diminishing marginal utility, contrasting cardinal and ordinal utility, and connect total and marginal utility through a water-consumption example.
Explore the law of equi marginal utility, showing how a rational consumer allocates a fixed budget between two goods to equalize marginal utilities and maximize total utility.
Explore indifference curves, showing the same level of satisfaction from different two-good bundles under ordinal utility, with budget constraints and diminishing marginal rate of substitution.
Understand how indifference curves slope downward and are convex or concave to the origin, with higher curves indicating greater satisfaction and straight-line substitutes or L-shaped complements.
Explore the budget line, showing how a consumer allocates income between two goods using I = x p_x + y p_y, and how price changes shift the line.
Consumer equilibrium arises when the budget line is tangent to an indifference curve, showing the optimal bundle given income. At equilibrium, the slopes equal p_x over p_y, the price ratio.
Explore how total cost equals fixed plus variable cost and how average total cost, average fixed cost, and average variable cost relate to output.
Define fixed cost as the portion of total cost that does not vary with output, with examples like rent and depreciation, and illustrate a horizontal cost curve.
Explain how variable cost changes with output, how it differs from fixed cost, and how to compute total, average, and unit variable cost.
Learn how marginal cost measures the extra cost of producing an additional unit and its relation to total, fixed, and variable costs, and calculate it from changes in total cost.
Explore cost concepts through a total cost equation, identifying fixed cost of 40, variable cost 9Q+10Q^2, and deriving average fixed cost, average variable cost, and average cost from the equation.
Derive marginal cost from the total cost equation using derivatives, and examine how the change in quantity affects total cost, including fixed, variable, and average costs.
Explore the characteristics of perfect competition, including a large number of buyers and sellers, free entry and exit, and homogeneous products, with price taker firms and perfect market knowledge.
Set output for price taker firms in perfect competition; MC equals MR, with price equal to average revenue. Identify intersections A and B as equilibrium production levels Q1 and Q2.
Explore how under perfect competition, average revenue, marginal revenue, and total revenue relate, with price takers selling at a single price and revenue equal to p times q.
Examine normal profit under perfect competition by showing how output is decided when average revenue equals average cost, yielding normal profit at the price that determines the optimum output.
Under perfect competition, a price-taking firm earns abnormal profit when average revenue exceeds average cost, with output set where marginal revenue equals marginal cost.
Explain normal loss under perfect competition by showing how the average variable cost equals average revenue at the equilibrium output, with MC equal to MR.
Examine abnormal loss under perfect competition and analyze output where marginal revenue equals marginal cost, while noting how average fixed cost, average variable cost, and shutdown decisions shape firm behavior.
In perfect competition, a price-taking firm may shut down when average fixed cost exceeds average revenue. The lecture links the horizontal AR/MR price line to shutdown decisions.
Explore the features of imperfect competition, including monopoly, oligopoly, duopoly, and monopolistic competition, focusing on price setters, market power, entry barriers, and heterogeneous products.
Learn how monopoly under imperfect competition shapes average revenue, total revenue, and marginal revenue, with price–quantity relationships and revenue calculations.
Explore how monopoly and imperfect competition determine output by equating marginal cost to marginal revenue and using price, average revenue, and marginal revenue in the graphs.
Explore how a monopoly decides output under normal profit, using the MR equals MC condition and the AR equals AC point.
Explore abnormal profit under monopoly and how price, average revenue, and average cost determine profits, output decisions, and the shaded areas representing abnormal profit in monopoly graphs.
Microeconomics studies how the individual parts of the economy, the households and the firms, make decisions to allocate limited resources. This course is based on a comprehensive study of the market structures, product markets and resource markets. It also deals with application of demand and supply, cost analysis and factors of production.
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
CLO 1: Acquire the knowledge, skills, and understanding of the fundamental concepts of microeconomics related to individuals, and firms in different market structures.
CLO 2: Evaluate the importance of consumer behavior theory in economic decision making.
CLO 3: Analyze the firms’ decision making with respect to cost and production theories to explain the relationship between production inputs and output
CLO 4: Determine how managers can maximize firm profits in various market structures including perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly
This course targets to
CO 1 Understand the difference between macro and micro economics and their area of application.
CO 2 Explain the responsiveness of the demand and supply functions in varied scenarios
CO 3 Describe the consumer theory and the cost of production theories with corresponding stakeholders
CO 4 Identify the factors behind pricing and producers’ decisions in various market structures
A diversified methodology shall be followed that include interactive class discussions, quizzes, assignments, case studies, discussion on handouts, videos, team work exercises, presentations, and semester project. An inquiry-based, reflective, collaborative, and subject based approach shall be pursued with formal and informal feedback. Instructor will encourage the students towards arguments and context-based learning.