Št. zadetkov: 26
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
health sciences;public health
In an energetic talk delivered prior to the U.S. presidential election, Jonathan Gruber provides a useful breakdown of the two candidates’ remedies for the nation’s troubled health care system. His detailed analysis of the key issues around health care may prove invaluable as the next president ass ...
Leto:
2008
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
social sciences;economics;microeconomics
You may not realize it, but every time you purchase something, you are participating in a market for that good. Some people supply it, and some people—you!—demand it. In this lecture, we will examine how to analyze supply and demand curves and the impact changes in market conditions and government p ...
Leto:
2011
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
social sciences;economics;microeconomics
Everyone knows the unpleasant feeling that results from the price of something you've been longing to buy increasing – or the excitement of seeing your favorite snack go on sale! When the price of a good changes, consumers' demand for that good changes. We can understand these changes by graphing su ...
Leto:
2011
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
social sciences;economics;microeconomics
Behind every supply and demand curve is an army of producers and consumers making their own decisions. For consumers, their decisions are driven, quite simply, by what they want! All consumers make decisions to maximize their utility. In this lecture, we will learn about utility, how to define it ...
Leto:
2011
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
social sciences;economics;microeconomics
Life would be easy if it was just a question of deciding what we would like most. The answer would probably be more of everything! Of course, economic decisions are not that simple, and the reason is that we are constrained in what we can choose: constrained by the amount of income, the amount of ti ...
Leto:
2011
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
social sciences;economics;microeconomics
Individuals make decisions about what to buy and when. But when we talk about the economy every day, we are often analyzing what millions of people are doing and deciding to do at different times. In order to think about this problem, we need to move from the micro to the macro and use our model of ...
Leto:
2011
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
social sciences;economics;microeconomics
Along with what to buy, another key decision that we make every day as economic agents is how much to work and how much to relax. The decision about supplying labor can be analyzed with the same tools used to analyze the market for pizza or movies, and we call this the analysis of the labor market. ...
Leto:
2011
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
social sciences;economics;microeconomics
As we've already learned, consumers gain utility from buying goods—but every good has to come from somewhere! Goods are produced by firms, and analyzing the decisions of firms is also central to our understanding of the economy. In this lecture, we will learn how companies make important operation d ...
Leto:
2011
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
social sciences;economics;microeconomics
Everything has a cost, and that is true for firms as well as consumers. When firms produce goods, they incur costs that vary depending on how much they are producing. In this lecture, we will analyze firms' cost functions.
Leto:
2011
Vir:
videolectures.net
Video in druga učna gradiva
Oznake:
social sciences;economics;microeconomics
Working with the firm's cost function enables us to learn how much of each input the firm should optimally use to produce a given level of output. However, the firm still has to decide how much output it should produce. This decision depends on the type of market the firm is operating in. We begi ...
Leto:
2011
Vir:
videolectures.net