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Microeconomics: Foundations and Insights

Курс от O.P. Jindal Global University
Начальный≈ 26.8 чАнглийский
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Learn to think like an economist—and make better decisions. Microeconomics: Foundations and Insights gives you a practical foundation for understanding how individuals, businesses, and markets make choices when resources are scarce. Whether you’re a student, aspiring economist, business professional, policymaker, or curious learner, you’ll develop the tools to analyze real-world economic problems with greater clarity and confidence. Start with the essentials—choice, incentives, scarcity, trade-offs, opportunity cost, and rational decision-making—and build toward more advanced microeconomic analysis. Explore how consumers make choices based on preferences, income, and constraints, and how firms determine production, costs, and profit. Then examine how prices allocate scarce resources, markets respond to change, and public policy can influence economic outcomes. Go beyond the basics with social welfare, strategic interactions, game theory, Nash equilibrium, imperfect information, monopoly, duopoly, cartels, and competition policy. Through practical questions, policy scenarios, and real-world applications, strengthen your economic reasoning, analytical thinking, and decision-making skills. Understand choices. Decode markets. Analyze policy. Think like an economist.

Навыки, которые вы освоите

Decision MakingMarket DynamicsEconomicsCompetitive AnalysisGame TheorySupply And DemandResource AllocationConsumer BehaviourPolicy AnalysisCritical ThinkingSocial StudiesPublic PoliciesBusiness EconomicsAnalysisMarket AnalysisProduction ProcessSocioeconomicsCost Benefit AnalysisStrategic Decision-Making

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7 модулей · 137 учебных материалов

01Basic Toolkit23 материалов

Getting Started

Course IntroductionВидеоCourse OverviewЧтение

The Economy versus Economics

What is the Use of Microeconomics?ВидеоTypes of ReasoningВидео

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Practice Questions: The Economy versus EconomicsЗадание

Choice and Incentives

Scarcity and ChoiceВидеоWhat Drives Choices?ВидеоPractice Questions: Choice and IncentivesЗаданиеRecommended Reading: Choice and IncentivesЧтение

Trade-offs

How to Decide Between A and B?ВидеоPractice Questions: Trade-offsЗадание

Opportunity Cost

Measuring Trade-offsВидеоBroken Window FallacyВидеоPractice Questions: Opportunity CostЗаданиеRecommended Reading: Opportunity CostЧтение

Being Rational

Can You be More Rational? ВидеоPractice Questions: Being RationalЗадание

Free Travel for Women Passengers in Delhi Transport Corporation Buses

Difficult Policy ChoicesВидеоPractice Questions: Free Travel for Women Passengers in Delhi Transport Corporation BusesЗаданиеEssential ReadingЧтениеGraded Quiz: Basic ToolkitЗадание

Hands-On Practice

Thinking Like an Economist: Making a Real-World Choice Under ScarcityDIALOGUEChoosing Under Constraints: A Policy Advisor’s Dilemma on Resource AllocationDIALOGUE
02Consumer Choice19 материалов

Objective Function, Preferences, and Rationality

Categorical versus Marginal ChoicesВидеоUtility: Total and MarginalВидеоPractice Questions: Objective Function, Preferences, and RationalityЗадание

Formalizing Preferences: Indifference Curves

Properties of Indifference CurvesВидеоSome Peculiar Indifference Curves ВидеоPractice Questions: Formalizing Preferences: Indifference CurvesЗадание

Budget Constraint and Optimality

Feasible SetВидеоOptimal ChoiceВидеоPractice Questions: Budget Constraint and OptimalityЗадание

Income and Substitution Effect

Income EffectВидеоSubstitution EffectВидеоClassifying Types of GoodsВидеоPractice Questions: Income and Substitution EffectЗаданиеRecommended Reading: Income and Substitution EffectЧтение

The Cost of Leisure: Labor Supply Curve (Backward Bending)

Income and Substitution Effect of a Rise in Wages ВидеоPractice Questions: The Cost of Leisure: Labour Supply Curve (Backward Bending) ЗаданиеRecommended Reading: The Cost of Leisure: Labor Supply Curve (Backward Bending) ЧтениеEssential Reading: The Cost of Leisure: Labor Supply Curve (Backward Bending)ЧтениеGraded Quiz: Consumer ChoiceЗадание
03Producer Choice20 материалов

Costs: Average and Marginal

Production DecisionsВидеоCost Structure: Fixed, Variable, and Sunk CostsВидеоDiminishing Product, Average and Marginal CostsВидеоPractice Questions: Costs: Average and MarginalЗадание

Production Possibility Frontier and Iso-profit Curves

Iso-cost and IsoquantsВидеоCosts and ProfitВидеоPractice Questions: Production Possibility Frontier and Iso-profit CurvesЗадание

Profit Maximization

Revenue and Marginal RevenueВидеоOptimal Production ChoiceВидеоShutdown PriceВидеоPractice Questions: Profit Maximization Задание

Economies of Scale and Innovation

Economies and Diseconomies of ScaleВидеоImpact of InnovationВидеоPractice Questions: Economies of Scale and InnovationЗаданиеRecommended Reading: Economies of Scale and InnovationЧтение

Objective Function of a Not-for-profit

What Besides Profit do Producers Care for?ВидеоPractice Questions: Objective Function of a Not-for-profitЗаданиеRecommended Reading: Objective Function of a Not-for-ProfitЧтениеEssential ReadingЧтениеGraded Quiz: Producer ChoiceЗадание
04Perfectly Competitive Market and Basic Policy Toolkit18 материалов

Price as an Allocation Mechanism

What does Price do? ВидеоDiamond Water ParadoxВидеоPractice Questions: Price as an Allocation MechanismЗадание

The Assumptions Underlying Perfect Competition

Key Assumptions and ResultsВидеоWhat if Assumptions are Unmet?ВидеоPractice Questions: The Assumptions Underlying Perfect CompetitionЗадание

Partial versus General Equilibrium Effects

Simple Changes in a MarketВидеоInterconnected Changes Across MarketsВидеоPractice Questions: Partial versus General Equilibrium EffectsЗаданиеRecommended Reading: Partial versus General Equilibrium EffectsЧтение

Simple Policy Interventions in a Market

Emergence of Grey or Black MarketsВидеоEmergence of PatronageВидеоRecommended Reading: Simple Policy Interventions in a MarketЧтениеPractice Questions: Simple Policy Interventions in a MarketЗадание

Can you Allocate Better Than the Market?

Vaccine Delivery PolicyВидеоPractice Questions: Can you Allocate Better Than the Market? ЗаданиеEssential ReadingЧтениеGraded Quiz: Perfectly Competitive Market and Basic Policy ToolkitЗадание
05Social Choice and Welfare19 материалов

Is Perfect Competition Desirable?

Undesirable Aspects of Perfectly Competitive MarketsВидеоDesirable Aspects of Perfectly Competitive MarketsВидеоPractice Questions: Is Perfect Competition Desirable?Задание

(Pareto) Efficiency

First Fundamental Theorem of Welfare EconomicsВидеоPractice Questions: (Pareto) EfficiencyЗадание

What is a Good Outcome?

Social Welfare functionsВидеоThe Role of PoliticsВидеоPractice Questions: What is a Good Outcome?ЗаданиеRecommended Reading: What is a Good Outcome?Чтение

Utilitarianism

The Trolley ProblemВидеоPractice Questions: UtilitarianismЗаданиеRecommended Reading: UtilitarianismЧтение

Other Possible Social Welfare Functions

Deontology – Moral InjunctionsВидеоRawlsian – Worst-offВидеоPractice Questions: Other Possible Social Welfare FunctionsЗадание

Universal Basic Income

What is the Case for (and Against) UBI?ВидеоPractice Questions: Universal Basic IncomeЗаданиеEssential ReadingЧтениеGraded Quiz: Social Choice and WelfareЗадание
06Social Strategic Interactions19 материалов

No (Wo)man is an Island

Decision Theory versus Game TheoryВидеоRules of a GameВидеоPractice Question: No (Wo)man is an IslandЗадание

Tragedy of Commons and Nash Equilibrium

Prisoner’s DilemmaВидеоTragedy of CommonsВидеоPractice Questions: Tragedy of Commons and Nash EquilibriumЗадание

Sequential Games and Game Trees

The Order MattersВидеоBackward InductionВидеоPractice Questions: Sequential Games and Game TreesЗадание

Choice with Incomplete or Imperfect Information

Adverse SelectionВидеоMoral HazardВидеоPractice Questions: Choice with Incomplete or Imperfect InformationЗаданиеRecommended Reading: Choice with Incomplete or Imperfect InformationЧтение

Signaling with Education Degrees

Principal-Agent Problem IВидеоPrincipal-Agent Problem IIВидеоPractice Questions: Signaling with Education DegreesЗаданиеRecommended Reading: Signaling with Education Degrees ЧтениеEssential Reading: Signaling with Education DegreesЧтениеGraded Quiz: Social Strategic InteractionsЗадание
07Introduction to Imperfect Competition19 материалов

Monopoly and Social Welfare

Monopolist’s ProblemВидеоOutcomes in a Monopoly MarketВидеоPractice Questions: Monopoly and Social WelfareЗадание

Natural Monopoly

Are Monopolies Desirable?ВидеоPractice Questions: Natural MonopolyЗадание

Monopsony

Monopsony in the Labor MarketВидеоPractice Questions: MonopsonyЗадание

Duopolies and Cournot Competition

Nash Equilibrium in a DuopolyВидеоPractice Questions: Duopolies and Cournot CompetitionЗадание

Cartels

Introduction to Competition PolicyВидеоAbuse of Dominant Position and Price DiscriminationВидеоPractice Questions: CartelsЗаданиеRecommended Reading: CartelsЧтение

Competition Policy

Competition Policy and Big TechВидеоPractice Quiz: Competition PolicyЗаданиеRecommended Reading: Competition Policy ЧтениеEssential Reading: Competition PolicyЧтениеGraded Quiz: Introduction to Imperfect CompetitionЗадание

Course Summary

Course Wrap-upЧтение