All goods and services are subject to scarcity at some level, which requires that society develop some allocation mechanism to determine who gets what. Over recorded history, these allocation rules were usually command based, meaning that the king or the emperor would decide. In contemporary times, most countries have turned to market-based allocation systems. In markets, prices act as rationing devices, encouraging or discouraging production and encouraging or discouraging consumption to find an equilibrium allocation of resources. To understand this process, businesses construct demand curves to capture consumer behavior and consider supply curves to capture producer behavior. The resulting equilibrium price “rations” the scarce commodity.
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Course Orientation
Module 1: Scarcity, Allocation, and Markets
Module 2: Government Intervention in Markets
Module 3: Firms, Production, and Costs
Module 4: Firm Behavior
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Excellent course and very well explained every basic economic concept with real examples.
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This is a very powrefull course about Economics, Consumer and Producer. Everyone must go through this course and its not that much easy as much people may guess about this.
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Professor DeBrock is one of the best teachers I have ever encountered. He makes a daunting subject understandable. I can't wait for more of the same in the next microeconomics course.
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