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课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/learn/microeconomics-part1
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课程名称：微观经济学：市场的力量 课程概述：我们每天都在做经济决策：购买什么、工作还是休闲、学习什么。我们时常受到市场的影响：价格影响我们的决策，市场指引我们投入精力的方向，引导企业生产特定商品。经济学无处不在。本课程是微观经济学市场理论的入门，探讨市场的起源、运作方式及其成就。我们将从稀缺性和比较优势的专业化开始，探讨如何走向更高的效率。接着，我们将运用供求工具建模市场，了解高效市场的成就与局限。最后，我们将考察政府干预对完美市场的影响。课程将通过实际生活中大家日常使用的商品和服务的例子，以及每周的练习，帮助您应用理论于时事和政策辩论，培养您成为一名既懂得分析又能批判性思考的市场观察者。 课程大纲： 1. **稀缺性概念**：理解稀缺性及机会成本，使用生产可能性边界模型可视化权衡，讨论经济增长如何扩大选择空间。 2. **专业化与贸易**：介绍比较优势概念，探讨贸易如何让我们超越自身生产限制，应用简单的贸易模型展示消费可能性边界。 3. **供需关系**：介绍供求基础模型，区分供需曲线的移动与点的移动，理解市场均衡与外部变化的影响。 4. **市场理解：弹性、市场剩余、效率与公平**：探讨需求的弹性概念，如何预测价格变化对收入的影响，以及市场在最大化社会总利益中所实现的成就。 5. **政府干预时**：分析政府干预（如价格上限和下限、税收和补贴）对市场的影响以及潜在的负面结果。
Name:The Concept of Scarcity
Description:Where do markets come from? We will start with understanding the constraint of scarcity that we face and the concept of opportunity cost that reflects the true cost of any decision we make. We will learn to model scarcity using the Production Possibilities Frontier that allows us to visualize tradeoffs, distinguish between efficient, inefficient and unattainable points. We will also discuss how economic growth affects our options and allows us to achieve the previously unattainable.
Name:Specialization & Trade
Description:Trade allows us to achieve the unattainable- we can consume more than we can produce on our own. We will introduce the concept of Comparative Advantage and discuss how gains from specialization allow us to use our resources efficiently. We will apply these concepts to a simple model of trade, showing that now the Consumption Possibilities Frontier allows points outside the Production Possibilities Frontier.
Name:Supply and Demand
Description:We will introduce the central model of Supply & Demand. This will allow you to communicate with other economists and finally understand those business pages and market updates. We will distinguish between a movement along and a movement of the supply & demand curves. We will define market equilibrium as understand that at an equilibrium price there is neither excess demand nor excess supply. We will end by a few scenarios where exogenous changes affect supply and/or demand and analyze the impact on equilibrium price and quantity.
Name:Understanding Markets: Elasticities, Market Surplus, Efficiency, and Equity
Description:There is a lot of terminology this week. We will introduce of the concept of elasticity of demand that measures the responsiveness of quantity demanded to a change in the price of a good. We will explore the relationship between change in price and revenue or sales and how elasticities can help us predict whether a decrease in price will increase or decrease revenue. We then introduce other elasticities of note: cross price elasticity, income elasticity and elasticity of supply. We end the week by exploring the great accomplishment of markets: maximizing the size of the pie or the total benefit to society.
Name:When Government Intervenes
Description:In week four we learnt that the markets maximize the surplus that can be generated. So what happens if the government steps in and intervenes in the market? This week we will analyze price floors and ceilings, taxes and subsidies and learn how the best intentions sometimes lead to very unfortunate results.
We make economics decisions every day: what to buy, whether to work or play, what to study. We respond to markets all the time: prices influence our decisions, markets signal where to put effort, they direct firms to produce certain goods over others. Economics is all around us. This course is an introduction to the microeconomic theory of markets: why we have them, how they work, what they accomplish. We will start with the concept of scarcity and how specialization according to comparative advantage helps us achieve more than we could alone. Next we model a marked using the tools of Supply and Demand and learn what well working markets accomplish and what their limit are. We end by exploring the impact of government intervention on perfect markets. Examples are taken from everyday life, from goods and services that we all purchase and use. We will apply the theory to current events and policy debates through weekly exercises. These will empower you to be an educated, critical thinker who can understand, analyze and evaluate market outcomes.
