Course Material, ECON 103, Fall 2012, UVic Econ. Dept.
Course Material
ECON 103: Principles of Microeconomics

Fall, 2012

Instructor: Dr M. Rutherford

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Course Materials

Course outline with lab and study guide schedule
Moodle page for Econ 103 labs
Grade Corrections Econ 103 Fall 2012

THE HELP CENTRE FOR ECON 103 AND 104 IS IN BEC 341.

Lecture Overheads

To access the lecture overheads below you will require a copy of Powerpoint. To print out the overheads go to Print Options and then click on handouts. You can then print four or more slides to a page.

Introduction: Basic Concepts and Models
Demand, Supply, and Elasticity
Markets and Efficiency
Demand Theory
Production and Cost
Perfect Competition
Monopoly
Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly
Factor Markets
Market Failures

Some Web Sites of Interest

Brad DeLong's Blog
Economist's View
Progressive Economics (Canadian)
The Freakonomics Blog
Paul Krugman's Blog (New York Times)
David Warsh Economic Principals newsletter
The Economist


Bed Time Reading

John McMillan, Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets. Norton, 2002.

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J.Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. Morrow, 2005.

Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist. Oxford, 2006.

Sylvia Nasar, Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius. Simon and Schuster, 2011.

Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.


Copyright © Malcolm Rutherford.
Last Update: August 2012