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Principles of Microeconomics

Massachusetts Institute of Technology via MIT OpenCourseWare

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This introductory undergraduate course covers the fundamentals of microeconomics. Topics include supply and demand, market equilibrium, consumer theory, production and the behavior of firms, monopoly, oligopoly, welfare economics, public goods, and externalities.

Syllabus

Lec 1: Introduction to Principles of Microeconomics and Supply & Demand
Lec 2: Preferences and Utility Function
Lec 3: Budget Constraints and Constrained Choice
Lec 4: Demand Curves and Income/Substitution Effects
Lec 5: Production Theory
Lec 6: Costs
Lec 7: Competition I
Lec 8: Competition II
Lec 9: Supply and Demand & Consumer/Producer Surplus
Lec 10: Welfare Economics
Lec 11: Monopoly I
Lec 12: Monopoly II
Lec 13: Oligopoly I
Lec 14: Oligopoly II
Lec 15: Input Markets I—Labor Market
Lec 16: Input Markets II—Labor and Capital
Lec 17: Making Choices over Time
Lec 18: Introduction to Trade
Lec 19: International Trade: Welfare and Policy
Lec 20: Uncertainty
Lec 21: Social Insurance
Lec 22: Efficiency and Equity
Lec 23: Government Redistribution and Taxation
Lec 24: Externalities
Lec 25: Behavioral Economics
Lec 26: Health Care Economics

Taught by

Prof. Jonathan Gruber

Tags

united states

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