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Lecture-120 Profit Maximization and Returns to Scale
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- 1 Intro - An Introduction to Microeconomics - Prof Vimal Kumar
- 2 Lecture-01 What is Economics ?
- 3 Lecture-02 Resources, Wants & Scarcity
- 4 Lecture-03 Allocation, Command, Market and Mixed Economy
- 5 Lecture-04 Individual
- 6 Lecture-05 Rationality, Self Interest and Optimization
- 7 Lecture-06 Branches of Economics
- 8 Lecture-07 Introduction to Demand & Supply
- 9 Lecture-08 Demand
- 10 Lecture-09 Demand:Effect of Substitutes and Complements
- 11 Lecture-10 Market Demand Function
- 12 Lecture-11 Factors Affecting Demand
- 13 Lecture-12 Supply and Market Supply
- 14 Lecture-13 Supply: Effect of Substitutes and Complements
- 15 Lecture-14 Factors Affecting Supply
- 16 Lecture-15 Market Equilibrium
- 17 Lecture-16 Few Examples
- 18 Lecture-17 Application: Price Control
- 19 Lecture-18 Consumer Surplus
- 20 Lecture-19 Producer Surplus
- 21 Lecture-20 Total Surplus
- 22 Lecture-21 Effect of Price Control on Surplus
- 23 Lecture-22 Implications of Market Equilibrium
- 24 Lecture-23 Price Elasticity of Demand
- 25 Lecture-24 Elastic, Inelastic and Unit- elastic Demand
- 26 Lecture-25 Perfectly Elastic and Perfectly Inelastic Demand
- 27 Lecture-26 More on Elasticity
- 28 Lecture-27 Factors Affecting Price Elasticity of Demand
- 29 Lecture-28 Effect of Taxation
- 30 Lecture-29 Tax Imposed on Seller
- 31 Lecture-30 Incidence of Tax
- 32 Lecture-31 Incidence of Tax: Four Extremes
- 33 Lecture-32 Incidence of Tax: Effect on Surplus
- 34 Lecture-33 Towards Consumer Theory
- 35 Lecture-34 Budget Line and Budget Set
- 36 Lecture-35 Factors Affecting the Budget Line
- 37 Lecture-36 Few Examples of Changes in Budget Line
- 38 Lecture-37 Consumption Set
- 39 Lecture-38 Convexity of Consumption Set
- 40 Lecture-39 Describing Utility
- 41 Lecture-40 Some Axioms
- 42 Lecture-41 Preferences as a Mathematical Construct
- 43 Lecture-42 Rationality in Real Life Vs. Rationality in Economics
- 44 Lecture-43 More on Three Axioms of Rationality
- 45 Lecture-44 Defining Utility Function
- 46 Lecture-45 Ordinal Vs. Cardinal Utility
- 47 Lecture-46 Properties of Preferences: Continuity
- 48 Lecture-47 Indifference Set
- 49 Lecture-48 Indifference Curve
- 50 Lecture-49 Behavioural Assumption: More is Better
- 51 Lecture-50 Properties of Preferences: Convexity
- 52 Lecture-51 Marginal Rate of Substitution (MRS)
- 53 Lecture-52 DMRS and Convexity: Example
- 54 Lecture-53 Summary
- 55 Lecture-54 Utility Maximization
- 56 Lecture-55 Utility Maximization: tangency criterion
- 57 Lecture-56 More on Utility Maximization
- 58 Lecture-57 Utility Maximization: Example
- 59 Lecture-58 Example Revisited
- 60 Lecture-59 Marginal Utility Vs. Marginal Rate of Substitution (MRS)
- 61 Lecture-60 Perfect Substitutes
- 62 Lecture-61 Perfect Complements
- 63 Lecture-62 An Example with Quasi Linear Preferences
- 64 Lecture-63 Demand Revisited
- 65 Lecture-64 Effect of Income on Quantity Demanded
- 66 Lecture-65 Effect of Change in Price
- 67 Lecture-66 Substitution Effect and Income Effect
- 68 Lecture-67 Giffen Good
- 69 Lecture-68 Expenditure Minimization as a Dual Problem of Utility Maximization
- 70 Lecture-69 Marshallian and Hicksian Demand Function
- 71 Lecture-70 Slutsky Equation
- 72 Lecture-71 An Application: Subsidy Vs. Direct Benefit Transfer
- 73 Lecture-72 Towards Producer Theory
- 74 Lecture-73 Technology or Production Function
- 75 Lecture-74 Isoquants
- 76 Lecture-75 Few Axioms Related to Technology
- 77 Lecture-76 Axioms/ Assumptions Continued
- 78 Lecture-77 Production in Short Run
- 79 Lecture-78 Average and Marginal Product of Labour (APL & MPL)
- 80 Lecture-79 More on APL and MPL
- 81 Lecture-80 Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns
- 82 Lecture-81 Production in Long Run
- 83 Lecture-82 MRTS: Few Examples
- 84 Lecture-83 Decreasing MRTS
- 85 Lecture-84 Elasticity of Substitution
- 86 Lecture-85 Returns to Scale
- 87 Lecture-86 Elasticity of Scale
- 88 Lecture-87 Economic Terminology: Opportunity Cost
- 89 Lecture-88 Economic Terminology: Sunk Cost
- 90 Lecture-89 Economic Terminology: Economic Profit and Accounting Profit
- 91 Lecture-90 Diminishing Marginal Product Vs. DMRTS
- 92 Lecture-91 Returns to Scale through Graphs
- 93 Lecture-92 Cost in Long Run
- 94 Lecture-93 Cost Minimization
- 95 Lecture-94 Cost Minimization: Few Examples
- 96 Lecture-95 Cost Minimization: Cobb-Douglas Production Function
- 97 Lecture-96 More on Cost Minimization
- 98 Lecture-97 Cost Function in the Long Run
- 99 Lecture-98 Cost in Short Run: TC, FC and VC
- 100 Lecture-99 Cost in Short Run: MC
- 101 Lecture-100 Shape of Cost Curves
- 102 Lecture-101 Factor Demand Function
- 103 Lecture-102 Output Expansion Path
- 104 Lecture-103 Cost Revisited: Quasi Fixed Cost
- 105 Lecture-104 Cobb-Douglas Function: Cost and Returns to Scale
- 106 Lecture-105 Short Run Vs. Long Run Cost Minimization
- 107 Lecture-106 Short Run Vs. Long Run Cost Minimization Through Graphs
- 108 Lecture-107 LRAC Vs. SRAC
- 109 Lecture-108 Short Run Marginal Cost Vs. Long Run Marginal Cost
- 110 Lecture-109 Profit Maximization
- 111 Lecture-110 Marginal Revenue
- 112 Lecture-111 Profit Maximization in Short Run Through Graphs
- 113 Lecture-112 Profit Maximization in Short Run Through Algebra and Calculus
- 114 Lecture-113 Market Environment
- 115 Lecture-114 Perfectly Competitive Market
- 116 Lecture-115 Supply Curve
- 117 Lecture-116 An example obtaining the short run supply function
- 118 Lecture-118 Profit maximization implies cost minimization
- 119 Lecture-119 Producer’s Surplus Revisited
- 120 Lecture-120 Profit Maximization and Returns to Scale
- 121 Lecture-121 Short Run Supply Vs. Long Run Supply
- 122 Lecture-122 Long Run Equilibrium and Supply Function
- 123 Lecture-123 Introduction to Monopoly
- 124 Lecture-124 Marginal Revenue of the Monopolist
- 125 Lecture-125 Monopoly: Price Elasticity of the Demand and MR
- 126 Lecture-126 Profit Maximization for the Monopolist
- 127 Lecture-127 Inverse Elasticity Pricing Rule
- 128 Lecture-128 Profit Maximization for the Monopolist through Graph
- 129 Lecture-129 No Supply Function for Monopoly
- 130 Lecture-130 Monopoly: Comparative Statics
- 131 Lecture-131 Imposition of the Tax on the Monopolist
- 132 Lecture-132 Welfare Effects of Monopoly Pricing
- 133 Lecture-133 Price Discrimination
- 134 Lecture-136 Introduction to Oligopoly
- 135 Lecture-134 Monopoly: Example
- 136 Lecture-135 Responses from Policy Makers
- 137 Lecture-137 Nash Equilibrium
- 138 Lecture-138 Cournot Model of Duopoly
- 139 Lecture-139 Stackelberg Model of Duopoly
- 140 Lecture-140 Bertrand Model of Duopoly
- 141 Lecture-141 Market Environment: Comparison Table