ECON104-07S2 (C) Semester Two 2007

Introduction to Microeconomics

18 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 July 2007
End Date: Thursday, 15 November 2007
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 29 July 2007
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 14 October 2007

Description

Scarcity, exchange and trade. Market analysis and policy. Consumer choice theory. Theory of the firm. Imperfect competition. Externalities and public goods.

Scarcity, exchange and trade. Market analysis and policy. Consumer choice theory. Theory of the firm. Imperfect competition. Externalities and public goods.

ECON 106 is equivalent to ECON104 in all respects.  Refer to the details under that course for further information.

Restrictions

ECON101, ECON106

Timetable Note

There is one tutorial per week in addition to lectures.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Steve Agnew

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Assignment 10%
On-line multi-choice tests 10%
Final Exam 60%
Term Test 20%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

ECON104 Course Reader for current year ;

Recommended Reading

Mankiw, N. Gregory; Principles of microeconomics ; 4th ed; Thomson South-Western, 2007.

Other relevant texts which you might find useful that are held in the Restricted Loans Department and/or main shelves are:
Principles of Microeconomics, Mankiw (Harcourt Brace, 2003)
Introduction to Microeconomics, Stockman, A. (Dryden)
Microeconomics, Grinols, E. (Houghton Mifflin, 1994)
Economics, Parkin, M. (Addison-Wesley, 1990, 1993)
Economics, Begg, D., Fischer, S. and Dornbusch, R. (McGraw-Hill)

Course links

Library portal
WebCT

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $625.00

International fee $2,550.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Department of Economics and Finance .

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