Microeconomics
Course No.: ECH1131001 Credit(s): 3
Course Description
Microeconomics is a general abstraction and generalization of the law of the development of the market economy in the more than 200 years of western developed capitalist countries. Its principles, laws and theories are the systematic reflection and description of the operation mechanism of modern market economy, and the enrichment of the essence of other related professional economic theories. It integrates empirical theory analysis with normative theoretical analysis. Microeconomics is also an important part of modern theoretical economics, it takes a single economic unit as the research object, explains the price mechanism to solve the problem of resource allocation through the social economic operation of individual economic units and the corresponding economic variables of individual value decision.
Course Learning Outcomes
Through learning this course, students can master the basic theory of micro economics based on the content, and improve the abstract thinking ability and logical thinking ability,and use the economics analysis method to analyze and solve problems. It enable students to understand some of the western economic theory reference for our current economic reform and opening up in China, and lay a solid foundation for the follow-up courses and practical work.
Relationship to Other Courses
The prerequisite for this course is Advanced Mathematics and Calculus.
Textbook and Reading Lists
Textbook:
Hongye Gao. Microeconomics (6th Edition). Renmin University of China Press,2014.
Suggested reading lists:
Xingqiao Ping, Microeconomics Eighteen. Peking University press, 2002.
Adam Simy, The Wealth of The Nations. the Commercial Press, 2015.
Hal .R. Varian, Fangyu Fei, Baohua Zhu, Microeconomics: A Modern Perspective. Gezhi press, 2015.
Course Assessment
Item | Title | Weighting (%) |
1 | Task in home | 10% |
2 | Test and Questions in class | 10% |
3 | Final exam | 80% |
Course Schedule
Week | Topics | Text |
1 | Introduction | Chapters 1 |
2 | Supply, Equilibrium Price and Elasticity | Chapters 2 |
3 | The Theory and Application of Supply and Demand | Chapters 2 |
4 | Cardinal Utility Theory | Chapters 3 |
5 | Ordinal Utility Theory | Chapters3 |
6 | Short Term Production Function | Chapter 4 |
7 | Long-term Production Function and Return of Scale | Chapter 4 |
8 | Cost Function | Chapter 5 |
9 | Short Term Equilibrium of Fully Competitive Manufacturers | Chapter 5 |
10 | Development of Quality | Chapter 6 |
11 | Long-term Equilibrium of Fully Competitive Manufacturers | Chapter 6 |
12 | Monopolize the Market and Monopolize the Competitive Market | Chapter 6 |
13 | Oligopoly and Market Comparison | Chapter 6 |
14 | Demand for Production Factors | Chapter 7 |
15 | Supply of Factors of Production | Chapter 7 |
16 | General Equilibrium and Welfare Economics | Chapter 8 |
17 | The Reasons and Countermeasures of Market Failure | Chapter 9 |
18 | Review | |