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Microeconomics: The Law of Demand and Supply

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This video explains the difference between micro and macro economics as explained by the neo-classical school of economics.

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What's the difference between micro and macro economics? These two economic disciplines can see confusing at first glance, but once you learn their focus it's easy to differentiate microeconomic issues and questions from macroeconomic ones.

In this blog post, you'll learn the difference between micro and macro economics, as well as specific examples of micro and macro economic problems. Read on to learn the basics of microeconomic and macroeconomic thought, study and analysis.

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Microeconomics vs. macroeconomics

The difference between micro and macro economics is simple. Microeconomics is the study of economics at an individual, group or company level. Macroeconomics, on the other hand, is the study of a national economy as a whole.

Microeconomics focuses on issues that affect individuals and companies. This could mean studying the supply and demand for a specific product, the production that an individual or business is capable of, or the effects of regulations on a business.

Macroeconomics focuses on issues that affect the economy as a whole. Some of the most common focuses of macroeconomics include unemployment rates, the gross domestic product of an economy, and the effects of exports and imports.

Does this make sense? While both fields of economics often use the same principles and formulas to solve problems, microeconomics is the study of economics at a far smaller scale, while macroeconomics is the study of large-scale economic issues.

Both fields of economics are interdependent

At first glance, micro and macro economics might seem completely different from one another. In reality, these two economic fields are remarkably similar, and the issues they study often overlap significantly.

For example, a common focus of macroeconomics is inflation and the cost of living for a specific economy. Inflation is caused by a variety of factors, ranging from low interest rates to expansion of the money supply.

While this might seem like a purely macroeconomic field of study, it's actually one that's very important in microeconomics. Since inflation raises the price of goods, services and commodities, it has serious effects for individuals and businesses.

On a microeconomic level, this has several effects. Businesses are forced to raise their prices in response to the increased cost of materials. They also need to pay their employees more over the long term to account for the higher cost of living.

This is just one example of a macroeconomic phenomenon - in this case, inflation and a rising cost of living - affecting a microeconomic one. Other macroeconomic decisions, such as the creation of a minimum wage or tariffs for certain goods and materials, have significant microeconomic effects.

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Examples of microeconomic issues

Microeconomics seeks to solve problems on a small level. Some economics like to describe microeconomics as the study of economics and behavior from the bottom up, since it's focused on the effects of low-level decisions on the economy.

An example of a microeconomic issue could be the effects of raising wages within a business. If a large business raises its wages by 10 percent across the board, what is the effect of this policy on the pricing of its products going to be?

Since the cost of producing products has increased, the price of these products for consumers is likely to follow suit. Likewise, what will happen if a company raises wages for its most productive employees but fires its least productive workers?

These are the type of questions microeconomics aims to solve. Microeconomics is also useful for studying the effects of your own decisions. One of the most common principles in microeconomics is opportunity cost.

Opportunity cost is the value of making one decision over another. A decision that involves economy cost is the choice of one meal instead of another: by choosing a certain food, you miss out on the benefits offered by another.

Choices involving opportunity cost could relate to your career. By choosing one job over another, you may gain opportunities but lose others. In addition to factors like supply and demand, opportunity cost is one of the principles of microeconomics.

Learn more about opportunity cost, including several examples of the opportunity cost of career choices and buying decisions, in our blog post on the opportunity cost formula.

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Examples of macroeconomic issues

While microeconomics focuses on the effects a certain decision has on individuals and businesses, macroeconomics looks at the bigger picture. In macroeconomics, a common issue is the effects of certain policies on the national or regional economy.

For example, while a microeconomist might study the effects of low interest rates on individual borrowers, a macroeconomist would observe the effects that low interest rates have on the national housing market or the unemployment rate.

Another common focus of macroeconomics is the way taxes affect the economics of a nation. A macroeconomist would look at the effects of a decrease in income taxes using measures like GDP and national income, rather than individual factors.

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The importance of a balanced economics education

Microeconomics and macroeconomics have a lot in common, and the skills used to solve small-scale economic issues are often identical to those used to find solutions to large-scale economic problems.

Learn the impact of economic variables on small firms, individuals, households and the economy as a whole in our Micro & Macro Economics course. Designed for new economics students, this in-depth course is an excellent introduction to macro and micro economics.

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The Difference Between Micro and Macro Economics

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What's the difference between micro and macro economics? These two economic disciplines can see confusing at first glance, but once you learn their focus it's easy to differentiate microeconomic issues and questions from macroeconomic ones.

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This gives a good look into macroeconomics and how it was first partly developed by the great depression. Macroeconomics looks at the issues of the country as a whole

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The Great Depression and its resulting high unemployment rate greatly influenced the development of macroeconomics. In 1936, John Maynard Keynes published The General Theory of Employment, Interest and , which theorized that government spending and tax policies could be used to stabilize economies. The Keynesian school of economic thought argues that an increase in government expenditures or a reduction in stimulate an ; likewise, a reduction in government expenditures or an increase in taxes will constrict an economy and reduce .

Later, Milton Friedman developed another well-known macroeconomic school of thought, called Monetarism , which rejected Keynes's fiscal policy idea and stated instead that regulating the money supply was the key to economic stability. Although Friedman published several books on a variety of topics, his best-known work is Studies in the Quantity Theory of Money , published in 1956.

The U.S. Federal government has both fiscal and monetary tools at its disposal to help regulate the economy.

The measures and topics of study most commonly associated with macroeconomics include: gross domestic product, the rate of employment, the phases of the business cycle , the rate of inflation, the money supply, the level of government , and the short-term and long-term effects of trends and changes in these measures. Macroeconomics also studies the interrelationships among the that shape the economy.

Macroeconomics confers considerable importance to the role expectations play in an economy. It studies the effects of anticipated and unanticipated changes, as well as the impact caused when the changes are expected to be temporary versus when they are expected to be permanent.

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The Great Depression and its resulting high unemployment rate greatly influenced the development of macroeconomics. In 1936, John Maynard Keynes published The General Theory of Employment, Interest and , which theorized that government spending and tax policies could be used to stabilize economies.

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This Website will explain the importance of money and time and its close relationship with mircoeconomics

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To save one, you often have to spend the other. (And you never seem to have enough of either, do you?) Here's an easy guide to making the right call