I'm usually gonna to try to do an outline of what we're covering. So we've talked about course details, what is micro? Now let's talk about how we do that.
What economics does? which is we use models. And I'll talk about a model of Supply and Demand. How do we actually teach you all about these trade-offs. The way we do it is by building simplified models.
A Model is technically the description of any relationship between two or more variables.
But unlike explaining relation between energy and mass we do not have scientific laws and constants in our universe. Ok? Economics is as much as we hate to say it, not a real science. It is a social science.
Which means that basically we don't have rigid laws that we can write down say they're all. They're everywhere applicable. We have to use models to basically try to explain the world as much as we can. And so in doing so, we have to make a set of simplifying assumptions. A set of simplifiying assumptions to try to essentially trade-off two goals.
One goal is to explain as much as we can.
The other goal is to have parsimonious models that I can teach you.
The more complicated the model gets, the harder it is to teach, the harder it is to slove. This comes to the erlier question about are you really just trading off two goods.
Well of course you're never jus trading off two goods. But we're gonna write our models like you are. And it's going to turn out that gives you all the intuition you need for a model with this three or four goods. It's just a lot easier math.
So it turns out everything you learn in the models of two goods tells you everything you need to know for a model with goods just with easier math.
So that's the kind of simplifying assumption. That's fairly non-offensive simplifying assumption because it doesn't really change anything.
We'll make other simplifying assumptions which are noxious and offensive and we'll talk about those. And if you are offended by them and bothered
Nah, di bagian ini, saya biasanya akan mencoba membuat garis besar dari apa yang akan kita bahas. Kita sudah membicarakan tentang detail perkuliahan, dan apa itu mikroekonomi. Sekarang mari kita bahas bagaimana kita mempelajarinya.
Apa yang dilakukan oleh ilmu ekonomi?
Yaitu kita menggunakan model. Dan saya akan membahas sebuah model penawaran dan permintaan. Bagaimana cara kami mengajarkan kepada kalian tentang berbagai trade-off atau pertukaran.
Jadi, kita menggunakan model untuk mencoba menjelaskan dunia semaksimal mungkin. Dan dalam proses itu, kita harus membuat serangkaian asumsi penyederhanaan. Serangkaian asumsi yang disederhanakan, untuk mencoba menyeimbangkan dua tujuan:
Dan ternyata, hal itu sudah cukup memberi Anda semua intuisi yang Anda butuhkan untuk memahami model dengan tiga atau empat barang. Matematikanya jadi jauh lebih mudah.
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