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This prefix denotes a research program that titles a Duranton and Puga paper analyzing sharing, matching, and learning mechanisms of urban agglomeration. Decision analyst Ronald Howard created a unit that uses this prefix to measure a type of risk. Robert Lucas claimed Keynesian economics lacked principles whose name begins with this prefix. A branch of economics named for this prefix was expanded by John Hicks’s book Value and (-5[1])Capital. “Foundations” named for this prefix study agents’ behavior in the context of a whole economy. A branch of economics with this prefix is applied to evaluate a society’s well-being in welfare economics. For 10 points, name this prefix that names a branch of economics studying the decisions of firms and individuals. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: micro- [or microfoundations; or microeconomics; or micromort]
<NS, Social Science>
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Summary

TournamentEditionTUHConv. %Neg %Average Buzz
Great Lakes2025-02-016100%83%102.50
Lower Mid-Atlantic2025-02-011100%100%48.00
Midwest2025-02-011100%100%119.00
Northeast2025-02-013100%67%95.33
Overflow2025-02-014100%25%93.50
Pacific Northwest2025-02-01250%50%76.00
South Central2025-02-012100%100%102.50
UK2025-02-011100%100%120.00