授業の目的 【日本語】
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授業の目的 【英語】
Goals of the Course | | | This course offers an enjoyable excursion to economics which can invite a student to the world of economic theory. Economics, especially microeconomics, is often seemed to provide an ex-post explanation for many economic outcomes, but economic theory can perform ex-ante analysis on wide-ranges of human behavior. This is exactly what the economic theory is. There is no royal road to learn economics. A student has to see trees (has to keep attending lectures and submitting review questions) for a while, but can successfully be able to observe a forest (whole structure of the economic theory) in due course. Needless to say, how much knowledge I can convey to students is significantly depending on the degree of effort of each student can spare for given limited teaching ability of the instructor. |
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到達目標 【日本語】
Objectives of the Course(JPN) | | |
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到達目標 【英語】
Objectives of the Course | | |
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授業の内容や構成
Course Content / Plan | | This course will cover major topics in microeconomics:
1. How do economists think? Friedman alleges that there is no such kind of thing as a free lunch!
2. What is a market for exchange? Ricard has proven trade matters!
3. What is consumers’ behavior? Utility maximization vs. Samuelson’s revealed preference
4. What is firms’ behavior? Profit maximization and supply curve
5. What should we see behind demand and supply curves? Marshall’s Principles of Economics and Pigou’s contribution
6. Should we intervene a market? Harberger’s triangle and a consequence of price policies
7. How is price of goods and services determined? Edgeworth Box Diagram and Pareto Optimality
8. Can we rely on market without any reservation? Perfect competition and the market failure
9. What does “externality “mean? Understanding environment issues and Coase Theorem
10. What’s matter with asymmetric information? Akerlof’s market for lemon
11. How are industries organized? Monopoly and the spectrum of industrial organization
12. Why do we need game theory? The payoff matrix of a game and Nash Equilibrium
13. How does economics describe output of an industry? The theory of Neoclassical production function
14. What do we mean by income distribution? Marginal product of factor of production
15. Now you should be able to model our economy in your mind! The PPF (Production Possibility Frontier) |
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履修条件・関連する科目
Course Prerequisites and Related Courses | | | None except appropriate concern upon economics. |
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成績評価の方法と基準
Course Evaluation Method and Criteria | | Course grade will be evaluated by
1. after lecture review questions (4 points * 15) 60%, and
2. final examination (40 points) 40%
It is necessary for studens to get more than 60 points in order to get passing grade.
Details will be carefully explained at the first lecture. |
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教科書・テキスト
Textbook | | reference books (NOT required textbooks):
1. Hal R. Varian, "Intermediate Microeconomics"
2. Timothy Taylor,"The Instant Economist"
3. Niall Kishtainy, "A little History of Economics"
These three books are available at "reserved book shelf" in the Economics Library. |
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参考書
Reference Book | | |
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課外学習等（授業時間外学習の指示）
Study Load(Self-directed Learning Outside Course Hours) | | before lecture: Read and think about basic questions for preparation study.
after lecture: Solve exercises for review study and submit answers for the review questions.
Details will be carefully explained at the first lecture. |
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注意事項
Notice for Students | | | Registered students can contact with me through e-mail. E-mail addres will be anounced in the class. |
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授業開講形態等
Lecture format, etc. | | If the educational activity level is 1 or less, face-to-face lessons will be held in principle. However, for students who do not wish to take face-to-face lessons, it will be conduct "face-to-face / ICT-based remote classes (two-way or simultaneous on-demand)". ICT-based remote classes will be conduct by NUCT etc. When conducting an on-demand lesson, students should use the NUCT feature "Messages" to ask teachers questions and exchange opinions about lessons between students.
* If the class format changes after registration (after this notification), we will notify you on the NUCT class site. |
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遠隔授業（オンデマンド型）で行う場合の追加措置
Additional measures for remote class (on-demand class) | | | Will be announced if necessary. |
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