Economics 300 - Microeconomics

Fall
2018
01
4.00
Brian Baisa
TTH 01:00PM-02:20PM
Amherst College
ECON-300-01-1819F
BEBU 107
bbaisa@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. Limited to 40 students. Fall semester: Professor Baisa. Spring semester: Professor J. Reyes.

Permission is required for interchange registration during all registration periods.