Markets, Prices, Firms & Property¶

Human Worlds

What you will develop¶

Explain when decentralized exchange coordinates well, where it fails, and why firms/rules/property structures arise.

Before you begin¶

Recorded prerequisites:

• Social Evidence, Interpretation & Comparative Method
• Strategic Interaction, Bargaining & Cooperation
• Collective action and the commons

Study and practice¶

This is a study outline. A complete practice sequence is not yet available.

• supply/demand
• price signals
• elasticity
• competition
• market power
• externalities
• transaction costs
• firms
• contracts
• property

Supply, demand, prices & elasticity¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Competition, market power & strategic pricing¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Externalities, public goods & missing markets¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Firms, contracts, transaction costs & property¶

Reconstruct the mechanism, apply it to an unseen case, produce a counterexample/boundary, identify evidence, and defend under changed assumptions.

Intended demonstration¶

Market diagnosis + incidence + institutional alternative

This describes the intended standard, not a validated assessment or a claim of mastery.

Reading options¶

Assigned readings, where available, appear in the practice sequence above. These additional recommendations are not all required reading.

• Principles of Economics 3e

Continue¶

Connections above reflect recorded prerequisites, not a compulsory calendar.

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