Introduction to Economics

Department of Management, Business School

College of Social Sciences

Details

Code 02720

Level of study First Year

Credit value 10

Semester 2

Pre-requisite modules None

Other pre-requisites None

Module description

The aim of the module is to provide a thorough grounding in microeconomics. Topics include demand and supply, elasticity, intervention in the market, marginal utility theory, production and cost analysis, market structure; perfect competition, analysis of monopoly and oligopoly, Pareto optimality, government intervention in cases of market failure.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures and classes