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Try it: shift demand or supply and watch price, quantity and both surpluses respond. Every graph on this site works like this.

Supply and demandA competitive market. Shift demand or supply and the equilibrium price, quantity and the two surplus areas update.
Price
$47.27
Quantity
54.5
Consumer surplus
$893
Producer surplus
$744
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ECON 331

Labour economics

How labour markets work, following Borjas: supply, demand, equilibrium, wage differentials, human capital and inequality.

  1. Introduction
  2. Labour supply
  3. Labour demand
  4. Labour market equilibrium
  5. Compensating wage differentials
  6. Education
  7. The wage distribution
  8. Labour mobility
  9. Discrimination
  10. Labour unions
  11. Incentive pay
  12. Unemployment

Introductory

Principles of microeconomics

Scarcity, supply and demand, elasticity, welfare, market structures and the role of government.

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Calculus-based

Intermediate micro theory

Consumer and producer theory with calculus: duality, uncertainty, general equilibrium, game theory and information.

Articles are being written.

Study tools

Practice examsFresh exams from the question bank, with timed mode, instant feedback and calculation questions that change every time.Graph LabDraw supply and demand, indifference curves, cost curves and policy wedges. Open any figure from an article and change it.Data libraryCanadian and North American data on participation, unemployment, wages, inequality and prices, with sources.