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Chapter 1

Introduction to Microeconomics

Chapter 1

Introduction to Microeconomics

The term Economics originated from the Greek word 'oikonomos,' meaning household management. It is the study of how individuals, businesses, and …
Economics can be subdivided into microeconomics and macroeconomics. The term micro means small. So, microeconomics studies the behavior of individual …
Microeconomics helps markets, firms, and individuals optimize their outcomes by efficiently allocating scarce resources, whether it's time, money, or …
In a world of limited resources, every decision involves trade-offs. It is a situation where one gives up one thing to gain another. For consumers, …
Opportunity cost represents the benefit a person or business foregoes by choosing one alternative over another. It quantifies the cost of not selecting …
A market is a complex network where buyers and sellers come together to exchange goods, services, or assets. It plays a key role in how our economy …
The production possibilities frontier is a graphical representation of all the possible output combinations of two goods an economy can produce. This …
When the production possibilities frontier rotates, the economy can increase or decrease the production of one good without sacrificing the output of …
A rotation in the production possibilities frontier represents a change in the efficiency of resources, enabling increased production of one good without …
Economics has two fundamental branches. They are positive and normative economics. Positive economics is about objective statements that can be tested and …