Temple University

Economics 52 Section 4

Principles of Microeconomics

Fall 2003

M - W - F

1:40 - 2:30 PM

Speakman 213

Office hours: Wednesday, 2:45 - 4 PM
                      Monday, 12:30 - 1:30 PM
                      Friday, 12:30 - 1:30 PM

                      813 Ritter Annex

Date and Day Lecture Reading Quiz Classroom Activity GraphEcon Homework is due on the day it is entered in the table.
1. Wednesday Sept 3 Introduction to the course   Icebreaker: Some Personal Information

Graphs: Slopes and Intercepts and

Down and to the Right?

  
2. Friday Sept 5 Chapter 1: Thinking like an economist        
3. Monday Sept 8   Quiz 1     Introductory Problems

Key
4. Wednesday Sept 10     Keynesian Beauty Contest    
5. Friday Sept 12 Chapter 2: Common Pitfalls for Decision Makers     Production Possibility Frontiers: Movements and Shifts  
6. Monday Sept 15   Quiz 2      
7. Wednesday Sept 17     Psycho-economics

Double Oral Auction: Docs and Results Fall 2002

Results Fall 2003

    
8. Friday September 19 Chapter 3: Comparative Advantage: The Basis for Exchange

Notes: Pt 1 and Pt 2

     Importer or Exporter?

Absolute and Comparative Advantage

The Gains from Trade

 

  
9. Monday September 22   Quiz 3    
10. Wednesday September 24     Opportunity Cost with Paul Solman 

Production Possibilities: Please bring scissors and tape to class

 Production Possibilities

Key
11. Friday September 26 Chapter 4 Supply and Demand: An Introduction   Supply and Demand Video: Paul Solman 1. A change in the quantity demanded,

2. A change in the quantity supplied,

3. Find the Equilibrium.

4. A change in demand

5. The effect of a change in demand, on equilibrium

6. A change in supply

7. The effect of a change in supply on equilibrium

 Comparative Advantage

 

Key
12. Monday September 29   Quiz 4 MicroAlive Animation Two Country Trade

 

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13. Wednesday October 1 Exam 1

Sample Fall 2002

Sample

 

        
14. Friday October 3 Review Exam         
15. Monday October 6 Chapter 5 Demand: The Benefit Side   MicroAlive Animation Elasticity: Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3  
16. Wednesday October 8   Quiz 5 Elasticity with Paul Solman  
17. Friday October 10     Demand

 

  
18. Monday October 13 Chapter 6 Competitive Supply: The Cost Side   MicroAlive Animation Production from one variable input

Fixed, Variable and Total Costs

Production, and Average and Marginal Costs

Competitive Output

 Elasticity

Key
19. Wednesday October 15   Quiz 6    
20. Friday October 17     Supply  
21. Monday October 20 Chapter 7 Efficiency and Exchange     Measuring Consumer Surplus

Measuring Producer Surplus

 

 The Competitive Paradigm

Key
22. Wednesday October 22   Quiz 7    
23. Friday October 24     Exchange  
24. Monday October 27 Chapter 8 The Quest for Profit and the Invisible Hand   MicroAlive Animation   Consumer Surplus: Tarif Vert

 

Key
25. Wednesday October 29   Quiz 8 Review for test    
26. Friday October 31 Exam 2

Key

Sample

        
27. Monday November 3 Review Exam 2        
28. Wednesday November 5 Chapter 9 Monopoly and Imperfect Competition        
29. Friday November 7   Quiz 9 MicroAlive Animation    
30. Monday November 10 Chapter 10 Thinking Strategically       Price and Output under Monopoly
31. Wednesday November 12   Quiz 10 Oligopoly or MicroAlive Animation    
32. Friday November 14     More Oligopoly    
33. Monday November 17 Chapter 11 Externalities and Property Rights        
34. Wednesday November 19   Quiz 11 Permits to Pollute    
35. Friday November 21 Chapter 12 Economics of Information        
36. Monday November 24   Quiz 12      
37. Wednesday November 26 Chapter 13 Labor Markets     Competitive Labor Markets

Monopsony

  
Friday
November 29		 Thanksgiving Break
38. Monday December 1   Quiz 13      
39. Wednesday December 3 Chapter 14 Public Policy        
40. Friday December 5   Quiz 14      
41. Monday December 8 Chapter 15 Public Goods and Taxes    

The Incidence of Taxation

Efficiency and Taxes

 

 Labor Demand in competitive markets due 12/8
42. Wednesday December 10   Quiz 15 Public Goods and Fairness  
  Final Exam: Wednesday, 12/17, 11 AM - 1 AM

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