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Principles of Economics Microeconomics

Course (109 videos)

Introduction
Introduction to Microeconomics
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Opportunity Cost and Tradeoffs
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Marginal Thinking and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
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Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium
The Demand Curve
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The Supply Curve
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The Equilibrium Price and Quantity
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Graphing a Demand Curve from a Demand Schedule, and How to Read a Demand Graph
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What Shifts the Demand Curve?
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Change in Demand vs. Change in Quantity Demanded
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Consumer Surplus
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Graphing a Supply Curve from a Supply Schedule, and How to Read a Supply Graph
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What Shifts the Supply Curve?
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Producer Surplus
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Equilibrium in Economics: How a Supply and Demand Graph Dot Explains Producer and Consumer Surplus
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Supply and Demand Terminology
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Does the Equilibrium Model Work?
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Elasticity and Its Applications
Elasticity of Demand
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Calculating the Elasticity of Demand
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Office Hours: Elasticity of Demand
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Elasticity of Supply
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Elasticity of Supply: Why Housing is Unaffordable
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Elasticity of Supply: Do Gun Buybacks Work?
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Taxes and Subsidies
Commodity Taxes
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Who Pays the Tax?
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Tax Revenue and Deadweight Loss
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Subsidies
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Wage Subsidies
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The Price System
I, Rose
A Price Is a Signal Wrapped up in an Incentive
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Markets Link the World
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The Great Economic Problem
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Information and Incentives
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Speculation
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Prediction Markets
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Price Ceilings and Price Floors
Price Ceilings
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Price Ceilings: Shortages and Quality Reduction
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Price Ceilings: Lines and Search Costs
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Price Ceilings: Deadweight Loss
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Price Ceilings: Misallocation of Resources
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Price Ceilings: Rent Controls
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Rent Control in Mumbai
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Price Floors: The Minimum Wage
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Price Floors: Airline Fares
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Why Do Governments Enact Price Controls?
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Price Controls and Communism
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Trade
The Big Ideas of Trade
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Comparative Advantage
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Another Look at Comparative Advantage
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Comparative Advantage Homework
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Tariffs and Protectionism
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Arguments Against International Trade
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Avengers: The Story of Globalization (Optional)
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Externalities
What Are Negative Externalities?
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Pigouvian Taxes
What Are Positive Externalities?
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Pigouvian Subsidies
Command and Control Solutions
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The Coase Theorem
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Trading Pollution
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A Deeper Look at Tradable Allowances
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Externalities and Incentives: The Economics of COVID
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Costs and Profit Maximization Under Competition
Introduction to the Competitive Firm
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Maximizing Profit Under Competition
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Maximizing Profit and the Average Cost Curve
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Entry, Exit, and Supply Curves: Increasing Costs
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Entry, Exit, and Supply Curves: Constant Costs
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Entry, Exit, and Supply Curves: Decreasing Costs
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Competition and the Invisible Hand
Minimization of Total Industry Costs of Production
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The Balance of Industries and Creative Destruction
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Monopoly
Maximizing Profit Under Monopoly
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Office Hours: Calculating Monopoly Profit
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The Monopoly Markup
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The Costs and Benefits of Monopoly
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Price Discrimination
Introduction to Price Discrimination
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The Social Welfare of Price Discrimination
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Tying
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Bundling
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Labor Markets
The Marginal Product of Labor
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Econ Duel: Is Education Signaling or Skill Building?
Human Capital and Signaling
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The Tradeoff Between Fun and Wages
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Compensating Differentials
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Do Unions Raise Wages?
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Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Commons
Public Goods and Asteroid Defense
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A Deeper Look at Public Goods
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Club Goods
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The Tragedy of the Commons
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Asymmetric Information
Asymmetric Information and Used Cars
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Asymmetric Information in Health Insurance
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Moral Hazard
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Solutions to Moral Hazard
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Signaling
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Consumer Choice
Introduction to Consumer Choice
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Budget Constraints
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Indifference Curves
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Consumer Optimization
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Bonus Topics
Office Hours: Game Theory
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Principles of Economics: Microeconomics