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  2. Giffen good - Wikipedia

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    In microeconomics and consumer theory, a Giffen good is a product that people consume more of as the price rises and vice versa, violating the law of demand. For ordinary goods , as the price of the good rises, the substitution effect makes consumers purchase less of it, and more of substitute goods ; the income effect can either reinforce or ...

  3. Microeconomics - Wikipedia

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    Microeconomics is also known as price theory to highlight the significance of prices in relation to buyer and sellers as these agents determine prices due to their individual actions. [11] Price theory is a field of economics that uses the supply and demand framework to explain and predict human behavior.

  4. NCERT textbook controversies - Wikipedia

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    From Class 11 syllabus, chapters like Central Islamic Lands, Confrontation of cultures, and The Industrial Revolution have been removed. Apart from this, from Class 12 civics book Politics in Indian since Independence, chapters like Rise of popular movements, ‘Era of one-party dominance’ have been removed.

  5. CORE Econ - Wikipedia

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    CORE Econ's authors claim that popular textbooks such as Principles of Economics by Greg Mankiw are little different in content to the first modern text book, Economics by Paul Samuelson, which was published in 1948, [20] meaning that these textbooks have ignored many of the innovations in economics since then:

  6. General equilibrium theory - Wikipedia

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    Notes and Problems in Applied General Equilibrium Economics. North-Holland. ISBN 978-0-444-88449-7. ——, with Rimmer, Maureen T. (2002). Dynamic General Equilibrium Modelling for Forecasting and Policy: A Practical Guide and Documentation of MONASH. Contributions to economic analysis (256). Amsterdam: Elsevier. ISBN 0444512608.

  7. Marginal revenue - Wikipedia

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    Marginal revenue under perfect competition Marginal revenue under monopoly. The marginal revenue curve is affected by the same factors as the demand curve – changes in income, changes in the prices of complements and substitutes, changes in populations, etc. [15] These factors can cause the MR curve to shift and rotate. [16]

  8. Marginal rate of substitution - Wikipedia

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    Under the standard assumption of neoclassical economics that goods and services are continuously divisible, the marginal rates of substitution will be the same regardless of the direction of exchange, and will correspond to the slope of an indifference curve (more precisely, to the slope multiplied by −1) passing through the consumption bundle in question, at that point: mathematically, it ...

  9. Welfare economics - Wikipedia

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    Welfare economics is a field of economics that applies microeconomic techniques to evaluate the overall well-being (welfare) of a society. [1]The principles of welfare economics are often used to inform public economics, which focuses on the ways in which government intervention can improve social welfare.