EC2002:03
Microeconomics 2A
Townsville, Cairns
HECS Band 2
26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials. Semester 1.
Principles of the market mechanism: operation of the price system through interaction of supply and demand; detailed analysis of the model of consumer choice.
Learning Objectives:
- the objective of the EC2002/2003 subjects (which together form a full-year microeconomics theory course) is to provide a thorough analysis of the theory of the market system and the operation of supply and demand in determining the activities of individual economic units (consumers, firms and factors of production). This allows the actual performance of the economy (which is analysed in later applied microeconomic units) to be compared with the expected performance based on price theory, so that the differences between the two may lead to proposals for improving the economy’s performance.
Assessment by a three-hour examination (100%).