I am scheduled to teach the three sections of EC120, Introduction to Microeconomics, in Fall 2019.
EC120 introduces students to the analysis of a market economy, with a focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the price system and the role for government intervention in the economy. Students will be introduced to economic analysis relevant to a wide variety of questions in business strategy and public policy conducted at the international, national or sub-national level. Specific examples addressed during the term will include environmental policy, domestic tax policy, lab our standards, international trade and health policy.
The critical goal in EC120 is to understand how to use an economic model to assess how economic changes affect the choices of households and firms, and the resulting effects on social welfare.
A draft of the course outline for Fall 2019 is here:
EC120 Course Outline – Fall 2019.
We will be using the textbook Microeconomics, 16th edition, by Chris Ragan. We use the entire textbook, and the online tools that are packaged with it, so I strongly recommend that students buy the text.