Outline of lecture

This course mainly aims to provide basic concepts and theories of microeconomics to those engineering graduate students who did not study economics in the past for their easy (and not complete) access to current economic topics and fields of applied economics such as environmental economics and development economics.

Purpose of lecture

This course mainly aims to provide basic concepts and theories of microeconomics to those engineering graduate students who did not study economics in the past for their easy (and not complete) access to current economic topics and fields of applied economics such as environmental economics and development economics.

Plan of lecture

1. Consumer: choice and demand (1)
2. Consumer: choice and demand (2)
3. Consumer: choice and demand (3)
4. Consumer: choice and demand (4)
5. Firm: production and supply (1)
6. Firm: production and supply (2)
7. Firm: production and supply (3)
8. Firm: production and supply (4)
9. Market mechanism (1)
10. Market mechanism (2)
11. Market failure
12. Externalities and incentives
13. Measurement of national economic activities (1)
14. Measurement of national economic activities (2)

Textbook and reference

Recommended but not required: Intermediate Micro Economics, 7th edition, Hal Varian

Related and/or prerequisite courses

n.a.

Evaluation

Based on both attendance to lectures and result of final exam