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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Both microeconomics and macroeconomics involve examining economic behavior, but they differ in terms of the scale of the subjects being studied. Microeconomics is the field of economics that looks at ...