Jeff’s Intermediate Micro Course. I teach undergraduate intermediate microeconomics, a 10 week course that is the second in a two-part seqeunce at Northwestern University.
I have developed a unique approach to intermediate micro based originally on a course designed by my former colleague Kim-Sau Chung. The goal is to study the main themes of microeconomics from an institution- and in particular market-free approach. To illustrate what I mean, when I cover public goods, I do not start by showing the inefficiency of market provided public goods. Instead I ask what are the possibilities and limitations of any institution for providing public goods.
By doing this I illustrate the basic difficulty without confounding it with the additional problems that come from market provision. All of this is done using the tools of dominant-strategy mechanism design. Only at this stage do markets become the primary lens through which to study microeconomics. Related post: Olympic Venue Voting. Week 1.5: Efficiency.
Week 5: Markets. Introductory Trade Issues: History, Institutions, and Legal Framework. Economics is a social science whose purpose is to understand the workings of the real-world economy.
An economy is something that no one person can observe in its entirety. We are all a part of the economy, we all buy and sell things daily, but we cannot observe all parts and aspects of an economy at any one time. For this reason, economists build mathematical models, or theories, meant to describe different aspects of the real world. For some students, economics seems to be all about these models and theories, these abstract equations and diagrams. However, in actuality, economics is about the real world, the world we all live in. For this reason, it is important in any economics course to describe the conditions in the real world before diving into the theory intended to explain them.
This first chapter provides an overview of the real world with respect to international trade. Money, information and uncertainty. Book Description Publication Date: 20 May 1989 This is a completely revised edition of the well-known monetary textbook.
The book discusses the latest analytical developments in monetary economic theory in a comprehensible and practical policy- orientated form for graduates and undergraduates specialising in monetary economics. The book provides a comprehensive survey of monetary economics, with the first nine chapters primarily concerned with micro issues, such as the role of, and demand for, money, the role and functions of banks and of the Central Bank; and the final nine chapters covering macro-economic issues, such as the transmission mechanism of monetary policy and international monetary problems.
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