Microeconomics: Allocation and Distribution

Typ: Vorlesung
SWS: 4
Credit Points: 5
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This course introduces students to the essential ideas and analytical tools of microeconomic analysis. It elaborates the basic model of consumer and firm behavior, including demand and supply, in the context of an idealized competitive market, and examines several ways in which the real world deviates from this model, including monopoly, minimum wages and other price controls, taxes, and free trade restrictions. The assumptions concerning human behavior that underlie economics are presented and critiqued. In addition, the course is concerned with welfare economics. It discusses government tools used to address the skewed distribution of income and wealth via re-distribution policies. Also covered are the basic aspects of game theory.