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Microeconomics is one of the main fields of the social science of economics. It considers the behaviour of individual consumers, firms and industries. (Contrast macroeconomics.)

One of the goals of microeconomics is to analyze market mechanisms that establish relative prices amongst goods and services and allocation of limited resources amongst many alternative uses. Microeconomics analyses market failure, where markets fail to maximise welfare, as well as describing the theoretical conditions needed for perfect competition. Significant fields of study in microeconomics include markets under asymmetric information, choice under uncertainty and economic applications of game theory.

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The theory of supply and demand usually assumes that markets are perfectly competitive. This implies that there are many buyers and sellers in the market and none of them have the capacity to significantly influence prices of goods and services. In many real-life transactions, the assumption fails because some individual buyers or sellers or groups of buyers or sellers do have the ability to influence prices. Quite often a sophisticated analysis is required to understand the demand-supply equation of a good. However, the theory works well in simple situations.

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I wish today was still f*** you thursdays: id send a big F*** You to my ECON professor Nanyun Zhang for giving me a F in microeconomics :(
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