Economics 300 - Microeconomics

Spring
2013
01
4.00
Christopher Kingston

MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM

Amherst College
ECON-300-01-1213S
BEBU 107
cgkingston@amherst.edu

This course develops the tools of modern microeconomic theory and notes their applications to matters of utility and demand; production functions and cost; pricing of output under perfect competition, monopoly, oligopoly, etc.; pricing of productive services; intertemporal decision-making; the economics of uncertainty; efficiency, equity, general equilibrium; externalities and public goods. A student may not receive credit for both ECON 300 and ECON 301.

Requisite: MATH 111, or equivalent and at least a "B" grade in ECON 111/111E or a "B-" in ECON 200-290, or equivalent. Fall semester: Professor Reyes.  Spring semester: Professor Kingston.

Permission is required for interchange registration during all registration periods.