ECON 201-01, Intermediate Microeconomics, Fall 2010

Abstract

Welcome to Intermediate Micro! This is the first semester this course has been offered in its current form at Rhodes College. It is far from the first time such a course has ever been taught, however. Intermediate‐level microeconomic theory is the lynchpin to any undergraduate course of study in economics. ECON 101 introduced you to the method of analysis employed by economists and some of the basic tools available to economists to answer some interesting questions. ECON 201 will expand and deepen your toolset so that you can begin to think of your own questions and imagine how you might model them. This course is essential to continued study in upper‐level courses one might consider “field courses” in applied microeconomics (e.g., international trade, labor economics, and public economics). ECON 201 is also an important complement, in its increased mathematical rigor, to study of statistical/econometric methods and theoretical game theory.