Dear All,
The Department of Economics offers an additional Principle of Microeconomics class this summer.(Econ1201-20 (2649) Summer Session II, July 07 – August 08 2014). Within four weeks, you can learn the basic knowledge in economics, reduce your course load for the fall semester and get one step closer to graduation. Please see the course description and syllabus from the instructor.
Course description:
Principles of Microeconomics, is the introductory course in economics. The course is designed to teach you the basic tools of microeconomic analysis. Microeconomics is the branch of economics that deals with the interaction of households and firms in individual markets. Some of the issues we will study include how prices and output levels are determined, what happens when governments intervene in markets, when do markets “fail”, how do markets produce an “efficient” use of a society’s scarce resources and are market outcomes equitable. Learning “to think like an economist” should make you a more informed student, consumer, worker and voter.
Econ1201-20 (2649) Summer Session II (2014)
Principles of Microeconomics
Instructor: Sining Wang (sining.wang@uconn.edu), Oak 320
Meeting Time: TuThu 10:00AM - 1:30PM, July 07 – August 08 2014
Classroom: KNS 301, Storrs
Office hour: TuThu 1:30PM -3:30PM
Textbook: Principles of Microeconomics (6th edition) by N. Gregory Mankiw
Assignments, Exams and Grading:
Class participation: 30%
Midterm: 30%
Final exam: 40%
TOPIC OUTLINES:
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Ten Principles of Economics
Chapter 2 Thinking Like an Economists
Chapter 3 Interdependence and the Gains from Trade
PART II: SUPPLY AND DEMAND I: HOW MARKETS WORK.
Chapter 4 The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
Chapter 5 Elasticity and Its Application
Chapter 6 Supply, Demand, and Government Policies
PART III: SUPPLY AND DEMAND II: MARKETS AND WELFARE.
Chapter 7 Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets
Chapter 8 Application: The Costs of Taxation
PART IV: THE ECONOMICS OF PUBLIC SECTOR
Chapter 10 Externalities
Chapter 11 Public Goods and Common Resources
Chapter 12 The Design of the Tax System
PART V: FIRM BEHAVIOR AND THE ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRY
Chapter 13 The Costs of Production
Chapter 14 Firms in Competitive Markets
Chapter 15 Monopoly
Chapter 16 Monopolistic Competition
For more information, contact: Sining Wang at sining.wang@uconn.edu