James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2003

EC1005:03

Economics for Business 1

Townsville, Cairns HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials, 12 hours workshops. Semester 1 (Townsville and Cairns campus); repeated in Semester 2 (Townsville campus).

Staff: Mr I Fleming (Townsville campus).

The subject develops introductory microeconomics and macroeconomics for business.

Learning Objectives:

  1. introduce students to concepts and analyses in microeconomics and macroeconomics;
  2. apply these concepts to important contemporary microeconomic and macroeconomic problems and to analye major policy issues.

Assessment by mid-semester examination (35%); final examination (65%).