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11.126J / 14.48J / 11.249J Economics of Education, Spring 2006
(2006-06)Discusses the economic aspects of current issues in education, using both economic theory and econometric and institutional readings. Topics include discussion of basic human capital theory; the growing impact of education ... -
14.01 Principles of Microeconomics, Fall 2007
(2007-12)This introductory course teaches the fundamentals of microeconomics. Topics include consumer theory, producer theory, the behavior of firms, market equilibrium, monopoly, and the role of the government in the economy. 14.01 ... -
14.02 Principles of Macroeconomics, Fall 2002
(2002-12)This course will provide an overview of macroeconomic issues: the determination of output, employment, unemployment, interest rates, and inflation. Monetary and fiscal policies are discussed, as are the public debt and ... -
14.02 Principles of Macroeconomics, Fall 2009
(2009-12)This course is designed to introduce classic macroeconomic issues such as growth, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, exchange rates, technological progress, and budget deficits. The course will provide a unified ... -
14.03 / 14.003 Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy, Fall 2010
(2010-12)This class presents microeconomic theory and applications of consumer and producer behavior and welfare analysis at an intermediate level. In addition to standard competitive models, we study deviations due to externalities, ... -
14.03 Intermediate Applied Microeconomics, Fall 2000
(2000-12)Presents basic theory and applications of consumer and producer behavior and welfare analysis at an intermediate level. Emphasizes applications, including the measurement of productivity, rationing, insurance markets, and ... -
14.03 Intermediate Applied Microeconomics, Fall 2004
(2004-12)This class presents microeconomic theory and applications of consumer and producer behavior and welfare analysis at an intermediate level. In addition to standard competitive models, we study deviations due to externalities, ... -
14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Fall 2003
(2003-12)Basic theory of consumer behavior, production and costs, partial equilibrium analysis of pricing in competitive and monopolistic markets, general equilibrium, welfare, and externalities. Credit not given for both 14.03 and ... -
14.04 Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, Fall 2006
(2006-12)This course focuses on the following topics: basic theory of consumer behavior; production and costs; partial equilibrium analysis of pricing in competitive and monopolistic markets; general equilibrium; welfare; and ... -
14.05 Intermediate Applied Macroeconomics, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study three macroeconomic policy problems in depth. Possible topics include long-run economic growth, the macroeconomics of the transition to a modern capitalist society, federal government ... -
14.05 Intermediate Applied Macroeconomics, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This subject considers three topics of macroeconomics that are alive and controversial for policy today. The topics are: economic growth - the roles of capital accumulation, increased education, and technological progress ... -
14.11 Insights from Game Theory into Social Behavior, Fall 2013
(2013-12)We will apply insights from game theory to explain human social behavior, focusing on novel applications which have heretofore been the realm of psychologists and philosophers—for example, why people speak indirectly, ... -
14.11 Putting Social Sciences to the Test: Field Experiments in Economics, Spring 2006
(2006-06)14.11 is a new class on the topic of field (that is, 'in situ') and laboratory experiments in the social sciences - both what these experiments have taught and can teach us and how to conduct them. -
14.11 Special Topics in Economics: The Challenge of World Poverty, Fall 2006
(2006-12)This is a course for those who are interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent world poverty, have had some economics, and believe that economists might have something useful to say about this question. The ... -
14.12 Economic Applications of Game Theory, Fall 2002
(2002-12)Analysis of strategic behavior in multi-person economic settings. Introduction to Nash equilibrium and its refinements: subgame-perfect equilibrium and sequential equilibrium. Applications drawn from labor economics, the ... -
14.12 Economic Applications of Game Theory, Fall 2005
(2005-12)Game Theory is a misnomer for Multiperson Decision Theory, the analysis of situations in which payoffs to agents depend on the behavior of other agents. It involves the analysis of conflict, cooperation, and (tacit) ... -
14.121 Microeconomic Theory I, Fall 2005
(2005-12)This course provides an introduction to microeconomic theory and is the first course in the microeconomic theory series. It is intended for graduate students in the economics program. Some components of the course are ... -
14.121 Microeconomic Theory I, Fall 2008
(2008-12)Theories of production and individual choice (under certainty and uncertainty); markets and competition; tools of comparative statics and their application to price theory. -
14.121 Microeconomic Theory I, Fall 2009
(2009-12)This half-semester course provides an introduction to microeconomic theory designed to meet the needs of students in the economics Ph.D. program. Some parts of the course are designed to teach material that all graduate ... -
14.123 Microeconomic Theory III, Spring 2001
(2001-06)General equilibrium, capital theory, incomplete markets, externalities, public goods. From the course web page: Course Description The central topic of this course is the theory of general equilibrium and its applications ...