Exam 6: The Supply Curve and the Behavior of Firms

The reason for an upward-sloping supply curve is increasing marginal cost.

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Why does it not make sense to sum individual firms' supply prices at every quantity rather than summing individual firms' supply quantities at every price?

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The reason for an upward-sloping supply curve is increasing marginal cost.

Why does it not make sense to sum individual firms' supply prices at every quantity rather than summing individual firms' supply quantities at every price?

The Central Idea

Observing and Explaining the Economy

The Supply and Demand Model

Subtleties of the Supply and Demand Model: Price Floors,price Ceilings,and Elasticity

The Demand Curve and the Behavior of Consumers

The Interaction of People in Markets

Costs and the Changes at Firms Over Time

The Rise and Fall of Industries

Monopoly

Product Differentiation, monopolistic Competition, and Oligopoly

Antitrust Policy and Regulation

Labor Markets

Taxes, transfers, and Income Distribution

Public Goods, externalities, and Government Behavior

Capital and Financial Markets

Macroeconomics: the Big Picture

Measuring the Production, income, and Spending of Nations

The Spending Allocation Model

Unemployment and Employment

Productivity and Economic Growth

Money and Inflation

The Nature and Causes of Economic Fluctuations

The Economic Fluctuations Model

Using the Economic Fluctuations Model

Fiscal Policy

Monetary Policy

Economic Growth and Globalization

International Trade

International Finance

Reading,understanding,and Creating Graphs

Consumer Theory With Indifference Curves

Producer Theory With Isoquants

Present Discounted Value

The Miracle of Compound Growth

Deriving the Growth Accounting Formula

Deriving the Formula for the Keynesian Multiplier and the Forward-Looking Consumption Model

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