text: what is micro economics?   microeconomics (literally, very small economics) is the study of the economic behaviour of individual consumers, firms, and industries and the distribution of production and income among them. it considers individuals both as suppliers of labour and capital and as the ultimate consumers of the final product. it analyzes firms both as suppliers of products and as consumers of labour and capital.  microeconomics seeks to analyze the market form or other types of mechanisms that establish relative prices amongst goods and services and/or allocates society's resources amongst their many alternative uses.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/micro-economics