The Principles of Microeconomics course introduces students to the fundamental concepts that explain how individuals, households, and firms make decisions in the face of scarcity. This guide is designed to support your learning by providing access to textbooks, scholarly articles, databases, case studies, and multimedia resources.
Through this LibGuide, you will find materials that:
Explain core concepts such as supply and demand, elasticity, and market equilibrium.
Explore consumer behavior, production decisions, and the role of costs.
Examine different market structures, from perfect competition to monopoly.
Highlight the impact of government policies, taxation, and regulation on markets.
Whether you are completing assignments, preparing for exams, or simply developing a deeper understanding of how markets work, this guide will help you connect economic theory with real-world applications.
UNIT 1: FOUNDATION CONCEPTS
Economic History and Economics (Article)
The Economics of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Economics (Article)
Instructor's Manual with Solutions Manual Principles of Macroeconomics 4th ed. (Book)
Opportunity Cost in Consumer Behavior: Definitions, Operationalizations, and Ambiguities (Article)
Macroeconomics and Microeconomics: An Overview (Article)
Why Macroeconomics does not Supervene on Microeconomics (Article)
Metroeconomic: On Two Production Possibility Frontiers (Article)
Comparative Advantage (Article)
Comparative Advantage and Competitive Advantage: An Economics Perspective and a Synthesis (Article)
The Gains from Trade and the Gains from Aids: Essays in International Trade Theory (Books)
An alternative graphical modeling for economics: Econographicology (Article)
Consumer Behavior Ordinal Approach (Article)
Microeconomics 9th ed. Global Edition (Book)
UNIT 2: MARKET DIAGRAM AND MARKET EQUILIBRIUM
Incorporating Quality-Differentiated Demand into the Undergraduate Microeconomics Core (Artice)
Applied MicroeconomicsConsumption, Production and Markets (Article)
Rapid Demand Curves for Behavioral Economics (Article)
Economic Demand and Essential Value (Article)
Explaining Growth: A Global Research Project (Book)
Microeconomic Theory: A Heteridix Approach (Book)
UNIT 3: PRICE ELASTICITY OF DEMAND AND SUPPLY
Price Elasticity of Demand (Article)
Supply and Demand in Microeconomics (Article)
Price Elasticity of Demand and Supply (Article)
Price Elasticity, Tax Incidence, and Sales Volume :A Simple Model (Article)
The Farm-Retail Price Spread in a Competitive Food Industry (Article)
UNIT 4: THEORY OF THE CONSUMER
Microeconomic Theory: Concepts and Connections 2nd ed. (Book)
Consumer Theory in Microeconomics and Market Research: A Insert Horizontal Linen Area for Interdisciplinary Integration (Article)
Microeconomic Theory (Article)
The Problem with the Concept of Utility and its Measurement (Article)
Formalization of Cost and Utility in Microeconomics (Article)
UNIT 5: THEORY OF THE FIRM: PRODUCTION
The Theory of the Firm Microeconomics with Endogenous Entrepreneurs, Firms, Markets and Organizations (Article)
The Microeconomics of Vessel Behavior: A Detailed Short-Run Analysis of the Effects of Regulation (Article)
Principles of Macroeconomics (Book)
Aggregate Productivity GrowthLessons from Microeconomic Evidence (Article)
Introduction to Economic Analysis (Article)
UNIT 6: THEORY OF THE FIRM: COSTS
Marginal Analysis and Empirical Research (Article)
Investment and q with Fixed Costs: An Empirical Analysis (Article)
A Study of Selected Cost Concepts of Economics and Accounting.Accounting (Article)
Theory of Costs (Article)
On Companies' Microeconomic Behavior: Profit Rate Versus Economic Profit (Article)
UNIT 7: MARKET STRUCTURES
Overemphasis on Perfectly Competitive Markets in Microeconomics Principles Textbooks (Article)
Market Structure and Macroeconomic Fluctuations (Article)
Entry and Competition in Concentrated Mariets (Article)
In Defense of Monopoly (Book)
The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings (Book)
UNIT 8: INTERNATIONAL TRADE
The Gravity Equation in International Trade: Some Microeconomic Foundations andEmpirical Evidence (Article)
Globalization of Production and Absolute Advantage in a Classical Approach (Article)
An Alternative international Trade, Macroeconomics, and Microeconomics Analytical Tools (Article)
Is Free Trade Passé? (Article)
Trade and Growth: Reconcilin The Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Evidence (Artilce)
OECD Trade Policy Studies Looking Beyond Tariffs The Role of Non-Tariff Barriers in World Trade (Book)
Instructor's Manual with Solutions ManualPrinciples of Macroeconomics 4th ed. (Book)