Microeconomics
- Microeconomics studies the behavior of individual economic agents such as consumers, producers, households, firms, and the government.
- Microeconomic studies the choices they make in response to change in a dynamic world.
- Microeconomics looks at the way consumers and producers come together in individual markets.
Specific Topics of Microeconomics
- At the consumer level, microeconomics examines the way in which people make choices about which goods and services to buy in order to improve their well being, given their budget constraints.
- When looking at producer behavior, microeconomics examines how firms make decisions such as what goods and services to produce and how to improve efficiency given their limited resources.
- Microeconomics also considers individual industries to see how producers interact and compete with each other and how government intervention may effect the economy.
Example
- Microeconomics includes the study of the supply and demand for a certain product, resource management, economic decisions made by members of an economy, the effects of income, taxation, price changes, etc.