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Instructor:         Harry Hillman Chartrand                                                     Phone: 244-6945
Location:        Arts 134                                                                          
Email: h-chartrand@shaw.ca

Class Hours: 
  1:00-2::20 Tuesday/Thursday                                 Website:
http://members.shaw.ca/

elementaleconomics

Office Hour:    9:30-10:15 M/W/F STMC 449                                           Tutorials: to be announced  

Required Text: Mansfield & Yohe, Micro Economics, 11th Ed., W.W. Norton

Optional Texts:   Mansfield & Yohe, Micro Economics, 10th Ed., W.W. Norton

                   Browning & Zupan, Microeconomics: Theory and Application, 7th Ed., NYC, John Wiley, 2002

                          Besanko & Braeutigam, Microeconomics An Integrated Approach, John Wiley & Sons, 2002

Evaluation: graphic narrative with minimal mathematical expression

3 in class tests                 @ 20% = 60%
1 Final Exam                    @ 40% = 40%  

                                                      100%

 Progressive grading to account for improved performance.

1. Introduction

1.1 Caution!

1.2 The Just Price

Lecturers

2. Consumer Theory                

2.1 Who are consumers?

2.2 Utility

2.3 Constraints

2.4 Maximization

2.5 Effects

2.6 Curves & Indices

2.7 Demand & Elasticity

1st Midterm

Lecturers plus B&Z Ch. 3, 4 & 5; M&Y Ch. 2, 3, 4 & 5 (partial)

3. Producer Theory

3.1 Who is a Producer?

3.2 Terms & Assumptions

3.3 Production Function

3.4 Cost & Supply Curves

3.4.1 One Variable

3.4.2 One Fixed Factor

Lecturers plus B&Z Ch. 7 & 8; M&Y Ch.5 (partial), 7 & 8

4.Competition

4.1 Terms & Assumptions

4.2 Perfect Competition

4.3 Imperfect

4.4 Monopoly

4.5 Monopolistic

4.6 Oligopoly

2nd Midterm

Lecturers plus B&Z Ch.9, 10, 11, 12 & 13; M&Y Ch. 9, 10, 11, 12 & 16

 5. General Equilibrium

  5.1 Complications

Lecturers plus B&Z Ch. 19; M&Y Ch. 16

 6. Public Policy

6.1 Origins

6.2 Competition

6.3 Equity

6.4 Externalities

6.5 Public Goods

6.6 Complications

3rd Midterm

Lectures plus B&Z Ch. 20; M&Y Ch 19
 

 

Mansfield & Yo Glossary

Required Answer Format

A graphic narrative including concise or ‘economic’ specification of:

1. Assumptions

a) Model
b) Components (what is graphed?)
c) Coefficients (what shapes the curves)

2. Definition of Terms

3. Graphic Presentation
4. Reading the Graphs, Statement of Significance and/or Policy Implications

 

Plagiarism & Academic Dishonesty will not be tolerated.

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