课程简介
课程的内容包括：导言（基本概念）；需求、供给、价格；弹性理论；消费者行为理论；生产理论；成本与收益；厂商均衡理论；分配理论；市场失灵与政府的作用；宏观经济学概论；国民收入决定理论；产品市场和货币市场一般均衡理论；总需求----总供给模型；失业、通货膨胀与经济周期；宏观经济政策；开放经济中的宏观经济； 总结。
课程大纲
Chapter 1: Foundations of Economics
1.1 Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics
1.2 Resources and Three Problems
1.3 Scientific Method and Positive Normative Analysis
1.4 The Market System
1.5 Production Possibilities Frontiers
1.6 Gains From Trade
Chapter 2: Demand and Supply
2.1 Demand
2.2 Variables That Shift Demand
2.3 Supply
2.4 Market Equilibrium and Changes of Equilibrium
2.5 Effect of Tax on Equilibrium
2.6 Applications of Demand and Supply
Chapter 3: Elasticity
3.1 The Price Elasticity of Demand
3.2 The Determinant of Price Elasticity of Demand
3.3 Other Elasticities
Chapter 4: Consumer Behavior
4.1 Consumer Preferences
4.2 The Budget Line
4.3 Consumer Choice
4.4 Changes in Consumer Choice
4.5 Income and Substitution Effect
Chapter 5: Production and Cost
5.1 Production in the Short Run
5.2 Cost in the Short Run
5.3 Production in the Long Run
5.4 Cost in the Long Run
Chapter 6: Perfect Competition
6.1 Perfectly Competitive Market
6.2 The Shutdown Decision and the Short Run Supply Curve
6.3 The Industry Long Run Supply Curve
Chapter 7: Economic Efficiency
7.1 Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus
7.2 Price Ceiling
7.3 Price Floor
7.4 Sales Tax
7.5 Subsidy
7.6 Open Economy
Chapter 8: Monopoly
8.1 Price and Output
8.2 Economic Efficiency
8.3 Price Discrimination
Chapter 9: Monopolistic Competition
9.1 Profit in the Short Run and Long Run
9.2 Comparing Pure Competition and Monopolistic Competition
Chapter 10: Oligopoly and Game Theory
10.1 The Kinked Demand Curve
10.2 Pigs in a Box
10.3 Prisoners’ Dilemma
10.4 Sequential Games
Chapter 11： GDP: Measuring Total Production and Income
11.1 GDP and GNP
11.2 Components of GDP
11.3 Problems of GDP
11.4 Other Measures of Total Production and Total Income
Chapter 12：Unemployment and Inflation
12.1 Measuring the Unemployment Rate
12.2 Types of Unemployment
12.3 Explaining Unemployment
12.4 Consumer Price Index
12.5 Is CPI Accurate?
Chapter 13： Long-Run Economic Growth and Business Cycle
13.1 Long-Run Growth
13.2 The Financial System
13.3 The Business Cycle
Chapter 14：The Aggregate Expenditure Model
14.1 The Determinant of Aggregate Expenditure
14.2 The Consumption Function and the AE Model
14.3 The Application of the AE Model
Chapter 15：Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
15.1 The Shape of the AD and AS
15.2 Recession, Expansion and Supply Shocks
15.3 A Dynamic AD-AS Model
Chapter 16：Monetary Policy
16.1 How Banks Create Money
16.2 The Demand and Supply of Money
16.3 Monetary Policy and Economic Activity
Chapter 17：Fiscal Policy
17.1 The Tools of Fiscal Policy
17.2 The Limits of Fiscal Policy
1.1 Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics
1.2 Resources and Three Problems
1.3 Scientific Method and Positive Normative Analysis
1.4 The Market System
1.5 Production Possibilities Frontiers
1.6 Gains From Trade
Chapter 2: Demand and Supply
2.1 Demand
2.2 Variables That Shift Demand
2.3 Supply
2.4 Market Equilibrium and Changes of Equilibrium
2.5 Effect of Tax on Equilibrium
2.6 Applications of Demand and Supply
Chapter 3: Elasticity
3.1 The Price Elasticity of Demand
3.2 The Determinant of Price Elasticity of Demand
3.3 Other Elasticities
Chapter 4: Consumer Behavior
4.1 Consumer Preferences
4.2 The Budget Line
4.3 Consumer Choice
4.4 Changes in Consumer Choice
4.5 Income and Substitution Effect
Chapter 5: Production and Cost
5.1 Production in the Short Run
5.2 Cost in the Short Run
5.3 Production in the Long Run
5.4 Cost in the Long Run
Chapter 6: Perfect Competition
6.1 Perfectly Competitive Market
6.2 The Shutdown Decision and the Short Run Supply Curve
6.3 The Industry Long Run Supply Curve
Chapter 7: Economic Efficiency
7.1 Consumer Surplus and Producer Surplus
7.2 Price Ceiling
7.3 Price Floor
7.4 Sales Tax
7.5 Subsidy
7.6 Open Economy
Chapter 8: Monopoly
8.1 Price and Output
8.2 Economic Efficiency
8.3 Price Discrimination
Chapter 9: Monopolistic Competition
9.1 Profit in the Short Run and Long Run
9.2 Comparing Pure Competition and Monopolistic Competition
Chapter 10: Oligopoly and Game Theory
10.1 The Kinked Demand Curve
10.2 Pigs in a Box
10.3 Prisoners’ Dilemma
10.4 Sequential Games
Chapter 11： GDP: Measuring Total Production and Income
11.1 GDP and GNP
11.2 Components of GDP
11.3 Problems of GDP
11.4 Other Measures of Total Production and Total Income
Chapter 12：Unemployment and Inflation
12.1 Measuring the Unemployment Rate
12.2 Types of Unemployment
12.3 Explaining Unemployment
12.4 Consumer Price Index
12.5 Is CPI Accurate?
Chapter 13： Long-Run Economic Growth and Business Cycle
13.1 Long-Run Growth
13.2 The Financial System
13.3 The Business Cycle
Chapter 14：The Aggregate Expenditure Model
14.1 The Determinant of Aggregate Expenditure
14.2 The Consumption Function and the AE Model
14.3 The Application of the AE Model
Chapter 15：Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply
15.1 The Shape of the AD and AS
15.2 Recession, Expansion and Supply Shocks
15.3 A Dynamic AD-AS Model
Chapter 16：Monetary Policy
16.1 How Banks Create Money
16.2 The Demand and Supply of Money
16.3 Monetary Policy and Economic Activity
Chapter 17：Fiscal Policy
17.1 The Tools of Fiscal Policy
17.2 The Limits of Fiscal Policy