by Jeffrey M. Perloff, Chapters 1 - 20
,Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Supply and Demand
3. Applying the Supply-and-Demand Model
4. Consumer Choice
5. Applying Consumer Theory
6. Firms and Production
7. Costs
8. Competitive Firms and Markets
9. Applying the Competitive Model
10. General Equilibrium and Economic Welfare
11. Monopoly
12. Pricing and Advertising
13. Oligopoly and Monopolistic Competition
14. Game Theory
15. Factor Markets
16. Interest Rates, Investments, and Capital Markets
17. Uncertainty
18. Externalities, Open-Access, and Public Goods
19. Asymmetric Information
20. Contracts and Moral Hazards
,Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Microeconomics: The Allocation of Scarce Resources
1) Microeconomics studies the allocation of
A) decision makers.
B) scarce resources.
C) models.
D) unlimited resources.
ANSWER: B
Section: The Allocation of Scarce Resources
Question Status: Old
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2) Microeconomics is often called
A) price theory.
B) decision science.
C) scarcity.
D) resource theory.
ANSWER: A
Section: The Allocation of Scarce Resources
Question Status: Old
AACSB: Analytic thinking
3) Most smicroeconomic smodels sassume sthat sdecision smakers swish sto
A) make sthemselves sas swell soff sas spossible.
B) act sselfishly.
C) make sothers sas swell soff sas spossible.
D) None sof sthe
sabove.sANSWER: A
Section: The sAllocation sof sScarce sResources
sQuestion sStatus: Old
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4) Society sfaces strade- ‑offs sbecause sof
A) government sregulations.
B) profit smotive.
C) faceless sbureaucrats.
, D) scarcity.
sANSWER: D
Section: The sAllocation sof sScarce sResources
sQuestion sStatus: Old
AACSB: Analytic sthinking