14.01 Principles of Microeconomics (Fall 2018, MIT OCW): Lecture 23

14.01 Principles of Microeconomics

14.01 Principles of Microeconomics (Fall 2018, MIT OCW). Instructor: Prof. Jonathan Gruber. This introductory undergraduate course covers the fundamentals of microeconomics. Topics include supply and demand, market equilibrium, consumer theory, production and the behavior of firms, monopoly, oligopoly, welfare economics, public goods, and externalities. (from ocw.mit.edu)

Lecture 23 - Market Failures I: Externalities

This lecture covers externalities, which are the costs or benefits that affect a party who did not choose to incur those costs or benefits. Other topics include government solutions and government policy.

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Lecture 01 - Introduction and Supply and Demand

Lecture 02 - Preference and Utility Functions

Lecture 03 - Budget Constraints and Constrained Choice

Lecture 04 - Demand Curves and Income/Substitution Effects

Lecture 05 - Production Theory

Lecture 06 - Costs

Lecture 07 - Competition I

Lecture 08 - Competition II

Lecture 09 - Supply and Demand and Consumer/Producer Surplus

Lecture 10 - Welfare Economics

Lecture 11 - Monopoly I