Student Resources

Microeconomics: An Intuitive Approach 

This section provides study guides for each chapter of Nechyba's Microeconomics: An Intuitive Approach, designed to reinforce key concepts. Additionally, graph animations are available to assist in visualizing topics and enhancing understanding.

Chapter 1: Introduction

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Chapter 2: A Consumer's Economic Circumstances

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Chapter 3: Economic Circumstances in Labor and Financial Markets

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Chapter 4: Tastes and Indifference

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Chapter 5: Different Types of Tastes

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Chapter 6: Doing the "Best" We Can

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Chapter 7: Income and Substitution Effects in Consumer Goods Markets

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Chapter 8: Wealth and Substitution Effects in Labor and Capital Markets

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Chapter 9: Demands for Goods and Supply of Labor and Capital

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Chapter 10: Consumer Surplus and Deadweight Loss

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Chapter 11: One Input and One Output: A Short-Run Producer Model

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Chapter 12: Production with Multiple Inputs

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Chapter 13: Production Decisions in the Short and Long Run

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Chapter 14: Competitive Market Equilibrium

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Chapter 15: The "Invisible Hand" and the First Welfare Theorem

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Chapter 16: General Equilibrium

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Chapter 17: Choice and Markets in the Presence of Risk

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Chapter 18: Elasticities, Price-Distorting Policies, and Non-Price Rationing

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Chapter 19:  Distortionary Taxes and Subsidies

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Chapter 20: Prices and Distortions across Markets

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Chapter 21: Externalities in Competitive Markets

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Chapter 22: Asymmetric Information in Competitive Markets

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Chapter 23: Monopoly

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Chapter 24: Strategic Thinking and Game Theory

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Chapter 25: Oligopoly

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Chapter 26: Product Differentiation and Innovation in Markets

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Chapter 27: Public Goods

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Chapter 28: Governments and Politics

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Chapter 29: What is Good? Challenges from Psychology and Philosophy

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Chapter 30: Balancing Government, Civil Society, and Markets