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Samuelson,
Mrs. Joan Robinson also contributed to the development
Popularised by neo-classical economist : Prof. Alfred Marshall His book: Principles of economics - 1890
Free Market Economy helps in understanding the working of a free market economy
There is no intervention by the Government or any other
agency
Study of Individual Units study of the behaviour of small individual economic units E.g: individual firm, individual price, individual household
Such as, perfect competition, laissez-faire policy, pure laissez-faire policy: the policy of leaving things to take their
capitalism, full employment own course without interfering
Use of Marginalism Principle Marginal analysis helps to study a variable through the
changes
Limited Scope doesn’t deal with the nationwide economic problems such as
inflation, deflation, balance of payments, poverty,
unemployment, population, economic growth etc.
Rent Land
Wages Labour
Micro economic theory shows under what conditions thes
Theory of Factor Pricing factors that contribute to the production process efficiencies are achieved.