Applied Microeconomics
Econ 213.3
Instructor : Harry
Hillman Chartrand Phone: 244-6945
Location: Email:
h-chartrand@shaw.ca
Class Hours: Website: http://members.shaw.ca/elementaleconomics/
Office Hour: Tutorial:
Required Text: Mansfield & Yohe, Micro Economics, 11th Ed., W.W. Norton.
Evaluation: Graphic
Interpretation
1st Mid-Term = 20%
2nd Mid-Term = 20%
3rd Mid-Term = 20%
Final Exam = 40%
100%
(progressive marking: final
grade adjusted to account for improved performance)
OBJECTIVE
The course is intended:
a)
as a co-equivalent of Econ 211 for purposes of admission
to more advanced economics courses; and
b)
to present the Standard Model within the 'real world
business' context of public and private (for-profit and non-profit) enterprise
including introduction to industrial organization theory and practice (IO).
COURSE
OUTLINE
1.0 Introduction Lectures
2.0 Consumer Theory M&Y Ch. 2, 3 & 4 (partial)
3.0 Producer
Theory M&Y Ch.6 & 7
4.0 Competition Theory M&Y Ch. 8, 10 (partial), 11 & 12
6.0 Policy & Applications M&Y Ch. 10 (partial) plus IO lectures
* Please use links on the Elemental Economics Home Page ( http://members.shaw.ca/elementaleconomics/) to Econ 211 for study notes by theme. The course outline for 213 is the same as Econ 211 minus 5.0 General Equilibrium plus 6.0 Policy & Applications. Evaluation, however, is different.
Academic Dishonesty
Academic dishonesty is subject to severe penalty at the