Microeconomics is one of the major focus areas within the academic field of economics. While the scope and methods of microeconomics can be complex, its overall focus is relatively straightforward.

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Microeconomics is the study of individual choices in markets. In microeconomics, we consider the role consumers and businesses play in the economy and how consumers and businesses make their economic ...

Physicists look at the big world of planets, stars, galaxies, and gravity. But they also study the minute world of atoms and the tiny particles that comprise those atoms. Economists also look at two ...

Economics can seem as if it is an obscure subject, in that you haven't had the chance to study it much, but parts of it can be very understandable. A simple definition of economics is the study of how ...

Editor’s note: Dr. Mike Walden is a William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor Emeritus at North Carolina State University and is a regular contributor to WRAL TechWire. RALEIGH – Every time there ...

Philosophy of Science, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Dec., 1984), pp. 573-594 (22 pages) This paper examines the relationship between modern theories of microeconomics and macroeconomics and, more generally, it ...

Supply and demand dynamics dictate pricing; equilibrium is achieved when both balance. Market structures affect competition, influencing company performance and investment potential. Understanding ...

Imagine State Department heavyweight Anne-Marie Slaughter ’80 or Obama-era U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman ’85 as students in what is now Princeton’s School of Public and International ...

This past semester, our colleague Eleanor Clemans-Cope argued that the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) ought to replace its requirement that students learn introductory ...