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Spring 2008 (material from other quarters)
by David K. Levine
All materials distributed in class, plus slides from the lectures and due dates will be available at this web site. For information about how to access the material on this site, click here. Changes in the course and other course news can be found here.
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Background Reading: Pure Exchange General Equilibrium;
Production Theory
This is the intermediate level microeconomics course for economics majors. It covers the basics tools required for economics, and is relatively mathematical.
PREREQUISITES: You must have Economics 103 and Mathematics 131 and 132. We will make serious use of calculus. We will do differentiation, simple equation solving, and a limited amount of integration. It is crucial that you feel comfortable with these operations. If calculus is something you once knew but are now fuzzy on, you will find this course difficult.
TEXTS: The OPTIONAL text is Robert Gibbons Game Theory for Applied Economists.
LECTURES AND SECTIONS: You are responsible for all material covered in lecture and section meetings as well as the required reading.
SLIDES: The main resource for the class are the slides which can be found on the course schedule page. These are the slides used in lecture, and you are encouraged to print them out and bring them to class to take notes on. You may wish to print more than one slide on a page: Adobe Acrobat allows you to do this from the print menu. Click on the "properties" button. The next dialog will give you the option to select the number of "pages per page" that you would like to print.
GRADING: There will be 4-5 ungraded problem sets with answers. You will be graded on two midterms and the final exam. The final exam will have three parts; the first two parts cover the same material as the two midterms. Your final grade will be based on the higher of your grade on each of those two parts and the corresponding midterm, plus the final section of the final. All three sections will be equally weighted.
EXAMS: Dates of
the exams are given in the course schedule. The midterm
is given in class. The final exam is mandatory.
REGRADING: We are always happy to talk to you about how exams are graded. If a score has been tallied incorrectly, we will gladly correct it. Otherwise, if you feel your exam has been graded unfairly, you should bring it to me (and not to the TA). In each case you must submit the entire assignment for regrading, you may not just ask to get extra points for a particular question. If errors in your favor are discovered, you may receive a lower grade. It is not fair to ask for a few more points on a particular question because it might net you a higher grade in the class, but we are all concerned that your grade fairly reflect your performance in the class. Please do not ask us what the cutoff is for the next highest grade.
EXAM EQUIPMENT: We will issue bluebooks for the exam. Do all scratchwork in the bluebook. You must use pen. Do not remove pages or erase: simply put a line through errors or scratch work. Calculators are not allowed, rulers are OK.
EXAMS TIPS: Several tips for getting the best possible score on exams.