Microeconomics focuses on patterns of supply and demand and the determination of price and output in individual markets. (Photo courtesy of Darren Hester. Used with permission.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Glenn Ellison
MIT Course Number
14.121
As Taught In
Fall 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course provides an introduction to microeconomic theory and is the first course in the microeconomic theory series. It is intended for graduate students in the economics program. Some components of the course are designed to teach material that all graduate students should know while others are used to introduce methodologies. Topics of recent interest will also be covered and may include: theories of production and individual choice (under certainty and uncertainty); markets and competition; tools of comparative statics and their application to price theory.
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