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What is MICROECONOMICS?
MICRO:
– study of economic behavior of (relatively)
"small" units, e.g., workers, firms

Versus MACRO:
– study of economy as a whole,
– aggregate actor behavior

• Remarkable consensus on micro's
underlying principles
– "laws" and tools of analysis, but vast differences
in terms of what to do with the analysis.


• Micro inherently conservative (?!).

Role of Theory
Microeconomic theory evolved gradually
– 1700s & late 1800s.
– Marshall’s famous "scissors"
– Few changes to core of micro
theory in many decades.

"Theory provides means or
framework for explaining
complex reality”
– Simplifies/abstracts from reality

Basic Supply and
Demand Curves

Price


S

– Need not fully or precisely describe reality

D
Quanti
ty

Role of Theory
• Best test of 'good' theory?
– Whether it explains/predicts what it's designed
to, NOT whether its assumptions are correct
or reflect reality

• CAVEAT:
– Many controversies & issues here
– Can have seemingly good theory, but as
result of non-modeled events or other
supporting circumstances, lousy results


Positive v. Normative Analysis
Economists & others often called on to assess
best policy approach.
– Positive analysis — "WHAT IS“
– Normative analysis — "WHAT SHOULD BE"

Important Distinction
– Much of micro in realm of positive analysis, dealing w/
propositions that can be tested in terms of underlying
logic (qualitative analysis) & empirical evidence
(quantitative analysis)

Positive v. Normative Analysis
• Qualitatively determining expected effects of
particular policy, based on micro theory
– Likely effects on employment, production, prices

• Quantitatively determining size of actual effects
of particular policy.
– Stats./econometrics & statistical significance


• Then, go further (Steps 1 & 2). Use value
judgments to decide whether or not such effects
are desired — realm of normative analysis.
• Economists no better than anyone else at making these …

Value Judgments
"When analysis comes in conflict with
[strongly held] values, values trump
analysis every time."
• Theda Skocpol (1997 Harvard) on 'welfare devolution’

Continuing debate on the ‘success’ of
welfare reform in U.S. CEA, Bill Clinton,
Al From, Bush, others:
• Was it policy or the economy & how much of each?
J. Bishop’s 1998 & R. Blank’s 2002 analysis of
impacts v. CEA’s

Welfare Reform’s ‘Success’?

Consider Blank (2002)


Figure 3-1

Labor Force Participation Rates for Women
by Marital Status and Presence of Children, 1989-2001

0.800

0.780

0.760

Single w/ no kids

0.740

0.720
Single w/ kids under 18


0.700

0.680

0.660

0.640

Married w/ kids under 18

Married w/ no kids

0.620

0.600
1989

1990


1991

1992

1993

1994

Source: Authors' tabulations of March Current Population Survey data, for

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999


2000

2001

Why POLITICAL ECONOMY?
Why not just microeconomics taught
by UT’s econ tribe?
– Cheaper, easier? Why not?
– For starters, check out stark contrast
in treatments by B&Z, Kuttner, Blank
& McGurn …

QUESTIONS
– Do “free markets” exist? Yes & No.
So what?
– What share of GDP produced & sold
in “free markets”?

Considerations
• Influence of laws, institutions & “rules of

the game”
• Effects of power & influence on market
outcomes
• Issues surrounding “one-man/one vote,”
“one-dollar/one-vote”
– The Endowment Issue

• Effects of policies & policy shifts on
markets & on market outcomes

Considerations
• Question: How deterministic is market
analysis?
• Question: Is there ‘play’ in markets? If so,
how much?
– 2001 Austin Equity Comm. & “living wage”
issue; see J. Siedlecki piece, LBJ Journal
(Spring/Summer 2005 – Link to article)

• Question: Do markets sometimes fail and,

if so, whats’ to be done about it?

The Imperial Market
Considerable “market worship”
• Not just among economists, but
policymakers of almost all stripes
(Kuttner, ch. 2)
Theory of Second Best
• i.e., where markets have multiple
‘distortions,’ removing one to create
purer market won’t necessarily
improve overall outcomes.

Market Analysis: Terms &
Concepts
Market defined as —
" Area” where potential buyers & sellers of a
good/service interact
"interplay of all potential buyers & sellers involved in”
Prices (to economists)

Relative (or real) prices, i.e., price relative to prices of
all other goods/services at point in time.
Issue more one of dynamics, change over time...

Market Analysis: Key Actors
Buyers/consumers
– Theoretical abstraction largely ignores
important market intermediaries, e.g.,
unions, trade associations.

‘Lost’ tribe of economists who
emphasize institutions & their effects
within a market economy.

Galbrait
h

– Pure market analysis insufficient, per se
Marsh
all

Market Analysis: Time
Time
• One of more important
dimensions of market
analysis
• S & D responses can & do
vary enormously over the
short- and longer-term!

Behavioral Assumptions
Critical foundation for what follows:
1. Self-interested behavior


actors pursue own goals & objectives

2. Rational behavior


actors weigh choices & actions and act
deliberately

3. Scarce resources


or, as a famous (non-practicing) economist put
it, "you can't always get what you want!”

Note: 1 + 2 => generally prefer more to less

Behavioral Assumptions
THUS,
• Actors must choose among available
options, pursuing desires rationally with
limited resources
or

• "Actors make choices subject to a
resource constraint"

Production Possibilities Frontier
• All possible combinations of
goods/services a rational actor
can attain with fixed resources
• Technology
• [What does this mean?]

Illustrate with 2 choices
• Say... research reports, R,
and research proposals, P
• Might also view as Present v. Future

PPF

Researc
h
Reports
(presen
t)

Production
Possibilities Curve

Research
Proposals
(future)

PPF

Researc
h
Reports
(presen
t)

Production
Possibilities Curve

A

Research
Proposals
(future)

PPF

Researc
h
Reports
(presen
t)

Production
Possibilities Curve

A
B
Research
Proposals
(future)

PPF

Researc
h
Reports
(presen
t)

Production
Possibilities Curve

A

C

B
Research
Proposals
(future)

PPF

Researc
h
Reports
(presen
t)

Production
Possibilities Curve

A
B

D

C

Research
Proposals
(future)

PPF
Opportunity Cost:
• Amount of one good that must be
foregone to produce added unit of another
• PPF slope
• Marginal Rate of Transformation, MRT
• Defined as: ∆R / ∆P
• Think "rise over run”

PPF Questions
Q1: Why is PPF concave?
A1: Efficiency of resource use dictates that as shift
resources to producing more of one, less of
another, become less efficient in doing so.
Q2: Which goods combination = BEST?
A2: Don't know (yet)! Depends on "preferences"
which we'll get to shortly.

PPF Questions …
Q3: Why not either devote more resources
to production or improve technology to
attain greater amounts of BOTH goods?
A3: Can't! In the short run, resources &
technology are both FIXED.

Opportunity Cost
• Economic or opportunity cost of given action or
choice comprised of both:
– EXPLICIT (or accounting) Cost
• defined typically in terms of monetary costs;

– IMPLICIT (or non-monetary) Cost
• imputed value of alternative use of resources

• “Value of resource in its best alternative use",
includes both explicit (monetary) and implicit (or
non-monetary) costs
– Key concept in micro & policy analysis
– Numerous applications, e.g., benefit/cost analysis

Discussion
Significance of accounting v. economic
costs, in terms of:
– Education & career choices?
– The environment?
– Welfare reform and related interventions?

What of "sunk costs"?
– Already incurred, can't recoup. So, forget
them.

Demand Schedules & Curves
Demand
– Schedule of prices & associated
quantities of goods/services
consumers willing & able to
Prices
purchase.

Demand Schedule,
for example:
– Functionally Q1 = a + bP1

Quantities

$7

2

$6

3

$5

4

Etc...

Demand Schedules & Curves
Law of Demand
– The lower the price of a good or service, the
larger the quantity consumers wish to
purchase (demand), ceteris paribus.
• Law of D —> negative slope for D curve!
• NOTE TERMS! Distinguish carefully between:
– ∆Qd (movement along)
versus
– ∆ in D, a shift in D Curve

– Ceteris paribus — tastes, incomes, prices of
other goods. E.g. iPods...

Demand Schedules & Curves

Price

Demand for iPods

D
1

Quantity

Demand Schedules & Curves

Price

Demand for iPods

D
1

Quantity

D2

Demand Depends On...
Incomes: Response depends very much on
TYPE of good/service!
– If “normal” good, increase in average
household income, Y
• With P unchanged, leads to
increased consumption of iPods
• That is, demand shifts from D1 to D2

– If "inferior" good, increase in Y
• With P unchanged, leads to decreased iPod
consumption, again a demand shift.

Inferior Goods?
Inferior goods:
– Spam
– Texas wines
– Hamburger
– Others?

*Most goods = Normal*

Demand Depends On...
Prices of Other Goods
– Depends very much on WHICH other goods!

Examples...
– CD Prices? Sharp drop in P of CDs leads to
increased consumption of CD players
• A shift out in demand, from D1 to D2.
• Complements in consumption, I.e., their
consumption "goes together"...

Demand Depends On...
Prices of Other Goods
• another example

– VCRs? Sharp drop in P of DVD players leads
to decreased consumption of VCRs
• a shift in demand from D2 to D1.
• Substitutes in consumption, alternatives for
meeting same needs...
• “Either/or” goods.

Demand Depends On...
Tastes & Preferences
– Can deal with these any
number of ways:

Consider introduction of
new alternatives
– growth of live music
venues, DATs & DAT
players, iPods, "retro"
(vinyl) movement
– E.g., the Wine Industry

Supply Schedules & Curves
SUPPLY, the producer side of the market:
– schedule of prices & associated quantities producers willing &
able to produce & sell at point in time.

LAW of SUPPLY:
– Higher the price, the larger the quantity producers will want to
produce (supply) at any point in time, cet. par. So, positive
slope!

P as "reward for production":
– As more produced, per-unit opportunity cost of production tends
to increase. Higher Ps needed to elicit greater Qs.

Ceteris paribus:
– Technology/production techniques, input factor prices/availability
generally. Try same e.g., iPods...

Supply Schedules & Curves
Supply of iPods

Price

S1
Quantity

Supply Schedules
Consider:
• Technology of Production
– Intro of new, more efficient production
techniques (e.g. HPWO) allows producers to
produce more at every P. So, supply shifts
out from S1 to S2

• Input Supply Conditions
– Increase in labor costs—one NOT offset by
productivity increases—leads to reduced
supply, a shift from S2 to S1.

Supply Schedules & Curves
Supply of iPods

Price

S1

S2
Quantity

Market Equilibrium,
Disequilibrium
Equilibrium P & Q —> no forces acting to
make them different!
– Static, not really dynamic.

Example?
– Try the market for Applied Microeconomics
textbooks...

Market Equilibrium
Applied
Microeconomics
Textbook Market

Price

S

D
Quantit
y

Market Equilibrium
Applied
Microeconomics
Textbook Market

Price

Pe

$12
5

S

D
Qe

Quanti
ty

Market Equilibrium
Applied
Microeconomics
Textbook Market

Price
Surplu
s

P1

$200

Pe

$12
5

S

D
Q1

Qe

Q2

Quanti
ty

Market Equilibrium
Applied
Microeconomics
Textbook Market

Price
Surplu
s

P1

$200

Pe

$12
5

P2

$75

S

Shortag
e
Q1

Qe

D
Q2

Quanti
ty

Government Interventions...
• NYC rent controls, minimum wage hikes
(1977-81, 1989, 1995)
– classic illustrations of impact of market interventions
– wage/price controls (1971-74)

Q: Are such interventions “bad”?
– Maybe, if you're a market worshiper
• Otherwise, depends upon your values & other non-market
considerations ...

• Some adverse market & non-market responses—
– Non-price rationing
– Quality deterioration
– Black markets