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• Microeconomics gives insight into how certain conditions in the market are affected
by economic behaviors and decisions of individuals, households, firms, and
industries.
• It examines the impacts of human action on the prices of goods, demand,
production, allocation, and distribution of the goods.
• Microeconomics forecasts certain trends that might occur in the market due to
certain decisions or actions by individuals, firms or households involved.
• Investors and market analysts often draw market insights through microeconomics.
Method of Microeconomics
There are some core methods used in the microeconomic study, the general
equilibrium theory and partial equilibrium theory are parts of these methods.
Although these theories are categorized as the neoclassicist microeconomic
theories, they are crucial methods for microeconomics study. As developed by
Lon Walras in 1874, the general equilibrium theory focuses on using numerical
values to represent and explain human behavior as they relate to the economy.
Alfred Marshalls partial equilibrium theory was also in the same direction.