ECO/365T - PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS
Course Description
This course provides students with the basic theories, concepts, terminology, and uses of microeconomics. Students learn practical applications for microeconomics in their personal and professional lives through assimilation of fundamental concepts and analysis of actual economic events.
This undergraduate course is 5 weeks.
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Topics and Objectives
The Fundamentals of Microeconomics
- Describe the economic foundations that explain how people make decisions and interact.
- Illustrate how the models of supply and demand work.
Market Dynamics and Efficiency
- Demonstrate how supply and demand determine the price and quantity exchanged of goods and services.
- Examine market outcomes and the effectiveness of different economic policies using the concepts of consumer surplus and producer surplus.
Elasticity and Consumer Choice
- Calculate how quantity supplied and quantity demanded respond to changes in prices and income.
- Apply consumer choice theory to the decisions made by consumers to maximize their utility.
The Microeconomics of Product Markets
- Calculate the different costs associated with the production of goods and services.
- Determine the short-run and long-run profit-maximizing outcomes of various market
- structures.
The Microeconomics of Resource Markets and Trade
- Analyze resource markets to determine resource prices and optimal resource utilization.
- Integrate the concepts of supply, demand, and market efficiency to analyze international trade and trade policies.
Prerequisites
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