The branch of economics concerned with individual decision units--firms and households--and the way in which their decisions interact to determine relative prices of goods and factors of production and how much of these will be bought and sold The market is the central concept in microeconomics
Microeconomics is the branch of economics that analyzes the market behavior of individual consumers and firms The interaction of these individual decision-makers creates patterns of supply and demand that fix the prices of goods and factors of production and determine how resources will be allocated among competing uses
the study of small economic systems that are part of national or international systems macroeconomics. Study of the economic behaviour of individual consumers, firms, and industries and the distribution of total production and income among them. It considers individuals both as suppliers of land, labour, and capital and as the ultimate consumers of the final product, and it examines firms both as suppliers of products and as consumers of labour and capital. Microeconomics seeks to analyze the market or other mechanisms that establish relative prices among goods and services and allocate society's resources among their many possible uses. See also macroeconomics
the branch of economics that examines individual decision-making by firms and households and the way they interact in specific industries and markets (chapter 1)
Branch of economics that deals with the smaller units within the economy, attempting to understand the decision-making behavior of firms and households and their interaction in markets for particular goods or services
That part of economics concerned with the study of the individual decision units - the consumer, the household, the firm - and how their decisions interrelate to determine the price of goods and services and factors of production, supply and demand
The study of the individual parts of the economy, the household and the firm, how prices are determined and how prices determine the production, distribution and use of goods and services