本课程内容涵盖了微观经济学最基本的研究框架和相关概念、以及经典模型,内容完整,由浅入深。本课程以家庭和厂商的行为及其相互联系为研究对象,考察市场经济中价格的形成,并由此说明社会如何解决资源配置的问题。通过本课程的学习,学生将了解和掌握微观经济部分的基本理论和基本分析方法,包括消费者、生产厂商的行为理论和处于核心的价格理论及贯穿所有的均衡理论,为进一步学习后续专业课打好基础。
本课程采用全英文授课,在国际金融贸易学院已经开设多年,有相关教学团队。本课程有助于拓展学生的国际化视野、提高学生的专业综合素养和实践能力,培养具有全球视野、通晓经济理论与实务、精通英语的国际化复合型高级专门人才。
1 Introduction to Microeconomics
1.1 Ten Principles of Economics, part 1
1.2 Ten Principles of Economics, part 2
1.3 Economic Models
2 Interdependence and the Gains from Trade
2.1 A Parable for the Modern Economy
2.2 Comparative Advantage: The Driving Force of Specialization
2.3 Applications of Comparative Advantage
3 The Market Forces of Supply and Demand
3.1 Markets and Competition
3.2 Demand
3.3 Supply
3.4 Supply and Demand Together
4 Elasticity and Its Application
4.1 The Elasticity of Demand, part 1
4.2 The Elasticity of Demand part 2
4.3 The Elasticity of Supply
4.4 Three Applications of Supply, Demand, and Elasticity
5 Supply, Demand, and Government Policies
5.1 How Price Ceilings Affect Market Outcomes
5.2 How Price Floors Affect Market Outcomes
5.3 Taxes
6 Consumers, Producers, and the Efficiency of Markets
6.1 Consumer Surplus
6.2 Producer Surplus
6.3 Market Efficiency
7 Applications: The Costs of Taxation
7.1 The Deadweight Loss of Taxation
7.2 The Determinants of the Deadweight Loss
8 Application: International Trade
8.1 The Determinants of Trade
8.2 The Winners and Losers from Trade
8.3 The Effects of a Tariff
9 Externalities
9.1 Externalities and Market Inefficiency
9.2 Public Policies toward Externalities
9.3 Private Solutions to Externalities
10 Public Goods and Common Resources
10.1 The Different Kinds of Goods
10.2 Public Goods
10.3 Common Resources
11 The Costs of Production
11.1 What Are Costs?
11.2 Production and Costs
11.3 The Various Measures of Cost
11.4 Costs in the Short Run and in the Long Run
12 Firms in Competitive Markets
12.1 Competitive Markets
12.2 Profit Maximization and the Competitive Firm’s Supply Curve
12.3 The Supply Curve in a Competitive Market
13 Monopoly
13.1 Why Monopolies Arise
13.2 How Monopolies Make Production and Pricing Decisions
13.3 The Welfare Cost of Monopolies
13.4 Price Discrimination
13.5 Public Policy toward Monopolies
14 Monopolistic Competition
14.1 Between Monopoly and Perfect Competition
14.2 Competition with Differentiated Products
14.3 Advertising
15 Oligopoly
15.1 Markets with Only a Few Sellers
15.2 The Economics of Cooperation
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1. Mankiw, N. Gregory, Principles of Microeconomics, 9th edition, Cengage Learning, 2020.
2. 马克思主义理论研究和建设工程重点教材《西方经济学》编写组,西方经济学(第二版)上册[M],高等教育出版社,人民出版社,2020年