No very sharp boundary can be drawn between microeconomics and the other main area of the subject - macroeconomics - but its broad distinguishing feature is to focus on the choices facing, and the reasoning of, individual economic decision-makers. It is a long-standing requirement of microeconomics that it can justify the behaviour it ascribes to individuals as being logical, given their preferences or objectives.
It covers both the behaviour of individual sectors and the way the sectors interact in equilibrium and disequilibrium in individual markets. The main areas of microeconomics are demand theory (demand, the theory of); the theory of the firm (firm, the theory of the); the demand for labour (labour, demand for), and other factors of production; welfare economics, and the study of the interactions between markets.
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