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024 Applied Economics for Managers, Summer 2004

Supply and demand determine a product's equilibrium price and quantity. (Graph courtesy of Prof. Daniel Richards. Background image courtesy of Ken Hammond, U.S. Department of Agriculture.)

Staff Instructor: Prof. Daniel Richards Course Meeting Times Lectures: Four sessions / week 1.5 hours / session Recitations: One session / week 1 hour / session Level Graduate Feedback Send feedback about OCW or this course.

Highlights of this Course


The complete set of lecture notes provide detailed outlines of the material covered in each session. A sample version of the final exam is also available, with solutions.

Course Description
The fact of scarcity forces individuals, firms, and societies to choose among alternative uses or allocations of its limited resources. Accordingly, the first part of this summer course seeks to understand how economists model the choice process of individual consumers and firms, and how markets work to coordinate these choices. It also examines how well markets perform this function using the economist's criterion of market efficiency. Overall, this course focuses on microeconomics, with some topics from macroeconomics and international trade. It emphasizes the integration of theory, data, and judgment in the analysis of corporate decisions and public policy, and in the assessment of changing U.S. and international business environments.

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