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AP Microeconomics Final Review
Fall 2014
Principles of Economics
• Topics:
– Scarcity
– Economic Reasoning
– Positive vs. Normative
– Three Economic Questions
– PPF or PPC
– Absolute and Comparative Advantage
– Productive and Allocative efficiency
Principles of Economics
• What gave you problems
– Payments for factors
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Capital gets interest
Labor gets wages
Land gets rent
Entrepreneurs get profit
– Productive efficiency
• It costs the least
Principles of Economics
• What gave you problems continued:
– Allocative efficiency
• Produce most wanted products
– Allocative and Productive
• Occur together at full production
– Best place to operate on the PPC
• Depends on what society wants
Supply and Demand
• Topics
– Law of Demand
• Determinants of Demand
– Law of Supply
• Determinants of Supply
– Equilibrium
– Surplus and Shortage
– Price Ceilings and Floors
Supply and Demand
• What gave you problems
– Demand vs, Quantity Demanded
– Determinants of Demand
• Substitutes and Compliments
Elasticity and Consumer Choice
• Topics
– Marginal Utility
– Price elasticity of demand
– Elasticity and total revenue
– Cross Elasticities
– Normal vs. Inferior Goods
– Price Elasticity of Supply
– Tax and Elasticity
Elasticity and Consumer Choice
• What gave you trouble:
– Law of diminishing marginal utility
– Inelastic supply
– Elasticity of supply in the long run and the short
run
– Zero cross elasticity
– Price floors and surplus
– Price ceilings and shortages
Business Costs
• Topics
– Forms of Business
– Total, marginal, average product
– Long run and short run
– Fixed and variable costs
– Economies and diseconomies of scale
– Total, average, marginal cost
Business Costs
• What caused you problems
– Forms of business ownership
– Normal and economic profit
– Law of diminishing marginal return
– Relationship of marginal and average costs
Theory of the Firm
• Topics
– Profit maximization
– MR=MC
– Short run and long run equilibrium
– Government regulation
– Allocative and productive efficiency
Theory of the Firm
• What gave you problems:
– Demand curve for industry and firm
– Monopolistic competition
– Oligopoly
– Pure Competition
– Monopoly
Theory of the Firm
• Topics
– Quantity of Labor
– Marginal Product and Demand
– Marginal Productivity Theory
– Wages in Monopolistic and Competitive Markets
– Pure economic rent vs. quasi rent
Theory of the Firm
• What gave you problems
– Actions of Marginal Product
• Rise
• Fall
• Become negative
– Occupational licensing
– Inclusive Unionism
Public Choice
• Topics
– Economic function of government
– Economic Rent
– Tax Incidence
Public Choice
• What gave you problems:
– Definition of economic rent
– Results of raising and lowering interest rates
– Regressive tax
Extra Resources
• Videos
• Khan Academy
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