Microeconomics

Teacher(s)

Johnen Johannes; Khatibi Arastou; Maniquet François;

Language

French

Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Main themes

The course adopts a traditional approach, first analysing consumer issues, then producer issues and leading finally to the analysis of general equilibrium, social well-being and external factors. Three types of reasoning are used: discursive, graphic, and mathematical. Particular emphasis is laid on the movement to formal reasoning and its use in interpreting results, and on using the theoretical tools on a wide range of exercises.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	The aim of this Microeconomics course is to help students, by examining a series of important topics, acquire an understanding of the instruments of micro-economic analysis so that they can use them in any of the applied courses later in their degree. It also aims to teach students to use these analytical tools to interpret concrete cases in Industrial Economics and public authority market regulation.

Bibliography

Hal Varian, Introduction à la microéconomie, De Boeck Supérieur, 4è Edition ou une édition plus récente.

Teaching materials

• Les slides "powerpoint" du cours sont disponibles via moodle.

Faculty or entity

ESPO