课程的目的是通过教学使学生掌握西方经济学基本知识和分析方法，对当代经济学的基本内容有全面、系统的了解，并能结合实际分析与应用，为以后其他课程的学习和工作奠定坚实的基础。
Overview
Syllabus
- Chapter 1: Foundations of Economics
- 1.1 Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics
- 1.2 Resources and Three Problems
- 1.3 Scientific Method and Positive Normative Analysis
- 1.4 The Market System
- 1.5 Production Possibilities Frontiers
- 1.6 Gains From Trade
- Chapter 2: Demand and Supply
- 2.1 Demand
- 2.2 Variables That Shift Demand
- 2.3 Supply
- 2.4 Market Equilibrium and Changes of Equilibrium
- 2.5 Effect of Tax on Equilibrium
- 2.6 Applications of Demand and Supply
- Chapter 3: Elasticity
- 3.1 The Price Elasticity of Demand
- 3.2 The Determinant of Price Elasticity of Demand
- 3.3 Other Elasticities
- Chapter 4: Consumer Behavior
- 4.1 Consumer Preferences
- 4.2 The Budget Line
- 4.3 Consumer Choice
- 4.4 Changes in Consumer Choice
- 4.5 Income and Substitution Effect
- Chapter 5: Production and Cost
- 5.1 Production in the Short Run
- 5.2 Cost in the Short Run
- 5.3 Production in the Long Run
- 5.4 Cost in the Long Run
- Chapter 6: Perfect Competition
- 6.1 Perfectly Competitive Market
- 6.2 The Shutdown Decision and the Short Run Supply Curve
- 6.3 The Industry Long Run Supply Curve
- Midterm Exam
- Midterm Exam
- Chapter 7: Economic Efficiency
- 7.1 Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus
- 7.2 Price Ceiling
- 7.3 Price Floor
- 7.4 Sales Tax
- 7.5 Subsidy
- 7.6 Open Economy
- Chapter 8: Monopoly
- 8.1 Price and Output
- 8.2 Economic Efficiency
- 8.3 Price Discrimination
- Chapter 9: Monopolistic Competition
- 9.1 Profit in the Short Run and Long Run
- 9.2 Comparing Pure Competition and Monopolistic Competition
- Chapter 10: Oligopoly and Game Theory
- 10.1 The Kinked Demand Curve
- 10.2 Pigs in a Box
- 10.3 Prisoners’ Dilemma
- 10.4 Sequential Games
- Final Exam
- Final Exam
Taught by
Xinhong Wang
