Appropriate for First Year students.

TimeDaysLocationInstructorGERCreditOPUS Class NumberSyllabus (Tentative)
11:30am-12:45pm
TuTh
White Hall 102
Ekins, William. HSC. 42307 TBA.

August 29, 2012- December 11, 2012

Catalog Description: Prerequisite: none. Introduction to the theory of markets, including consumer and producer choice and how they interact to determine prices and resource allocations. Applications include price controls, production, market structures, environmental economics, governmental regulation of the economy, labor and capital markets, and international exchange.

Semester Details:

Microeconomics is the study of individual choice in a world of limited resources. In particular, how markets allocate goods and services from firms to households via a price system. In this course, we introduce the basic tools of microeconomic analysis. The course covers how markets set prices, how and when markets fail, and the behavior of firms within a market. The focus of this course is to foster intuition of when and where these tools of analysis can be applied. The course uses in-class experiments, such as auctions, to develop intuition for economic systems.    

Required Textbooks, Articles, and Resources

  1. Mankiw, N. Gregory . Principles of Microeconomics.
    ISBN: 10: 0538453044 or 13: 9780538453042 .
    6th edition; South Western

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