Economics 300 - Microeconomics

Spring
2020
01
4.00
Brian Baisa
TTH 11:30AM-12:50PM
Amherst College
ECON-300-01-1920S
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 50 students. Fall semester: Professors Baisa and Hyman (team teaching). Spring semester: Professor Baisa (one section), Professor Hyman (one section). Limited to 40 students per section. 

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Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.