ECONOMICS 2020-01
Intermediate Microeconomics
MWF 9-10   AG 41
Spring 2001
 

Instructor: J. Shogren
Office: 121 Ross Hall
Telephone: 766-5430
Office Hours: MWF 10-11 and by appointment
E-Mail:jramses@uwyo.edu
URL for Econ 1000:http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/Shogren/jaysho/intermicro.htm
 

Course Introduction

Economics is a discipline of limits--defining them, addressing them, and overcoming them.   Remember economics is not only about financial and commercial concerns.  Microeconomics is about choice to develop or conserve our scarce resources, and how to understand the benefits and costs of opening or limiting our choices with rules and regulations.  This course explores the tools used in modern microeconomics.    We examine how these economic tools can help make good ideas better and prevent bad ideas from making things worse.   Our goal is to consider how society can use its scarce resources more efficiently by understanding how people react to economic incentives.  My responsibility is to show you how to use these tools to organize complex problems into manageable models of reality, and explain why microeconomics matters more than you might think about everyday decisions.  Your responsibility is to learn the material, come to class, and discuss your opinions.

The text for the course is:

Schotter, Andrew 2000.  Microeconomics: A Modern Approach (3rd Edition).

This text is required for the course.   We will follow the book closely throughout the semester.

The text has some on-line support at:

     http://occ.awlonline.com/bookbind/pubbooks/schotter_awl/