中级微观经济学(中山大学).ppt

文档介绍：MICROECONOMICSClassroom Lecture Notes (3 credits, as of 2004)
based on Hal R. Varian’s
Intermediate Microeconomics,
Sixth Edition,
referring to Pindyck and Rubinfeld’s
Microeconomics,
Fourth Edition.
Chapter 0
Economics
The source of all economic problems is scarcity.
Problem of trade-off, and choice.
Economics, as a way of thinking,
as a dismal science.
Problems
- solutions
- hidden consequences.
Main decision-making agents:
1 individuals (household),
2 firms, and
3 governments.
Objects of economic choice are
commodities,
including
goods and services.
Main economic activities:
Consumption,
Production, and
Exchange.
Microeconomics and macroeconomics:
to show the market mechanism (the invisible hand),
to supplement it.
The circular flow of economic activities.
product market factor market