Principles of Economics:
Micro
Fall
15 Module Suggested Calendar
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to Know menu)
Textbook
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Principles of Economics:
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Table of Links to 15 Modules of Instruction
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Third Block of Study
(11) Monopolistic
Competition
One Dozen (or so) Bookmarks
Fall Semester Course and How It's Graded
Link to Projects #1, #2, #3 and #4 (Project 4 is the final exam)
How To Send Me Your Request for Financial Aid Verification
Table Explaining How to Use the Four Columns
First
Block of Study
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Module 1
Assignment Read & Study: Chapter Title:
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Timeline Students should keep up with the following timeline while visiting the links colored purple.
Additional Help
Elasticity: An Active Learning Game
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Daily Class Outlines Do the homework in the Lesson Plan links.
PowerPoint Slides Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link. Alternate lecture and links below are enrichment but are not required reading:
Lecture on
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Chapter Overview
In this chapter you learn how the law of demand and the law of
supply combine forces to determine the price and quantity of goods
and services in marketplaces.
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Module 2Assignment Read & Study: Chapter Title:
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Students should keep up with the following timeline, by visiting all the links colored purple.
Additional Help
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Daily Class Outlines Do the homework in the Lesson Plan links. Lesson Plan PowerPoint Slides Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link.
Lecture on
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Chapter Overview
This chapter answers two questions:
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Module 3Assignment Read & Study: Chapter Title:
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Students should keep up with the following timeline, by visiting all the links colored purple.
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Daily Class Outlines Do the homework in the Lesson Plan links.
Lesson Plan Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link.
Lecture Alternate links are enrichment but are not required reading: Alternate Lesson |
Chapter Overview
Learn how government can affect markets
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Module 4Assignment Read & Study: Chapter Title:
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Students should keep up with the following timeline, by visiting all the links colored purple.
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Daily Class Outlines Do the homework in the Lesson Plan links. Lesson Plan PowerPoint Slides Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link. Lecture on ExternalitiesAlternate links are enrichment but are not required reading: Alternate Lesson
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Chapter Overview
Learn how government corrects
inefficient overproduction by: Learn how government corrects inefficient underproduction by:
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Module 5Assignment Complete: Presentation #1 (or)
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Timeline Students should keep up with the following timeline, by visiting all the links colored purple.
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Daily Class Outlines
Lesson Plan
Review Sessionfollowed byExam #1
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Overview
Measure your progress. Exam #1 has 33 true/false, multiple choice, problems, and short answer questions like those in your study guide and text. Exam #1 is worth 200 of 1000 possible course points.
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Module 6Assignment Read & Study: Chapter Title: Production and Costin your text and study guide.
Master these: Course Objectives
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Daily Class Outlines Do the homework in the Lesson Plan links.
Lesson Plan PowerPoint Slides Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link.
Lecture
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Chapter Overview
Size does not guarantee survival. So we discover the relation between how much we produce and what it costs to produce. Material in this chapter in the next three modules, so learn it well!
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Module 7Assignment Read & Study: Chapter Title: Perfect Competitionin your text and study guide. Course Objectives Master these: Course Objectives
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Timeline
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Daily Class Outlines Do the homework in the Lesson Plan links.
Lesson Plan PowerPoint Slides Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link. Lecture on Perfect CompetitionAlternate links are enrichment but are not required reading: Alternate Lesson
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Chapter Overview
Discover the nuts and bolts about the hot rivalry in the nation's competitive market. You'll see rational choice, balancing costs and benefits at the margin, and response to incentives at work.
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Module 8Assignment Read & Study: Chapter Title: Monopolyin your text and study guide.
Course Objectives Master these: Course Objectives
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Timeline
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Daily Class Outlines Do the homework in the Lesson Plan links.
Lesson Plan PowerPoint Slides Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link. Lecture on MonopolyAlternate links are enrichment but are not required reading: Alternate Lesson
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Chapter Overview
Electric power, the cable TV you subscribe to, perhaps your bookstore ... each may be a monopoly. Do single sellers take advantage of the consumer? Learn whether monopolies are efficient and fair. |
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Module 9Assignment Read & Study: Chapter Title: Monopolistic Competitionin your text and study guide. Course Objectives Master these: Course Objectives
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Timeline
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Daily Class Outlines
PowerPoint Slides Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link. Lecture on Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly (Slides 1 - 28 Alternate links are enrichment but are not required reading: Alternate Lesson |
Chapter Overview
Like to see a price war over airline tickets, or how about all the specials at all the grocery stores? These are the kinds of competition we might like to see everyday. Learn about efficiency and fairness in everyday markets. |
Module 10AssignmentPresentation #2 (or)
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Timeline Students should keep up with the following timeline, by visiting all the links colored purple.
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Daily Class Outlines
Lesson Plan Review Sessionfollowed byExam #2 |
Measure your progress. Exam #2 has 33 true/false, multiple choice, problems, and short answer questions like those in your study guide and text. Exam #2 is worth 200 of 1000 possible course points. |
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Module 11
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Timeline Students should keep up with the following timeline, by visiting all the links colored purple.
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Daily Class Outlines Do the homework in the Lesson Plan links. Lesson Plan
PowerPoint Slides Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link.
Lecture on Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly Alternate links are enrichment but are not required reading: Alternate Lesson
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Chapter Overview
In Module 11 we discover that in some industries, only a half-dozen or so firms create the predominance of all sales. Oligopoly means "competition among the few." Continuous Course Improvement Efforts In addition to my Course
Critiques attached to Exams #1, #2, and #3, RCTC provides distant learners
and selective sections of in-class students with an opportunity to evaluate
courses during this time frame.
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Module 12Assignment Read & Study: Chapter Title: Regulation
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Timeline
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Daily Class Outlines Do the homework in the Lesson Plan links.
Lesson Plan PowerPoint Slides Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link. Lecture on Regulation and Antitrust Alternate links are enrichment but are not required reading: Alternate Lesson |
Chapter Overview
Visit the Department of Justice and discover whether it should be interested in Microsoft. Learn why diamonds and oil and baseball are cartels, and why only baseball is sanctioned in the U.S. Continuous Course Improvement Efforts In addition to my Course
Critiques attached to Exams #1, #2, and #3, PHCC provides distant learners
and selective sections of in-class students with an opportunity to evaluate
courses during this time frame. |
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Module 13Assignment Read & Study: Chapter Title: Demand and Supply in Factor Marketsin your text and study guide. Course Objectives Master these: Course Objectives
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Timeline
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Daily Class Outlines Do the homework in the Lesson Plan links.
Lesson Plan PowerPoint Slides Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link. Lecture on Demand and Supply in Factor Markets
Alternate links are enrichment but are not required reading:
Alternate Lesson |
Chapter Overview
This chapter teaches you the factor markets: |
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Module 14Assignment Read & Study: Chapter Title: Inequality and Povertyin your text and study guide.
Course Objectives Master these: Course Objectives
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Timeline Students should keep up with the following timeline, by visiting all the links colored purple.
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Daily Class Outlines Do the homework in the Lesson Plan links.
Lesson Plan PowerPoint Slides Read the PowerPoint Chapter Lecture link. Lecture on Inequality, Poverty, and Redistribution Alternate links are enrichment but are not required reading: Alternate Lesson |
Chapter Overview
Of all the occupations on which man had to that time engaged (1776) - war, politics, religion, violent recreation, unrequited sadism - (Adam Smith felt that) the making of money was socially the least damaging. Discover the Lorenz curves. Lorenz curves can be used to show how income and wealth are distributed in the U.S. and around the world. |
Module 15AssignmentPresentation #3 (or)
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Timeline Students should keep up with the following timeline, by visiting all the links colored purple.
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Daily Class Outlines
Lesson Plan Review Sessionfollowed byExam #3 |
Measure your progress.
Exam #3 has 33 true/false, multiple choice, problems, and short answer questions like those in your study guide and text. Exam #3 is worth 200 of 1000 possible course points. |
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Module 16
Final Essay
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Your Instructor is Watching and Waiting
for Your Results. Your final essay is described in How to Prepare for Graded Micro Exams, Issue-Papers, and Presentations. of the red Need-to-Know menu of the Syllabus.
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Deadline before which all work must be received by the Instructor
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Take a look at what's available in Macroeconomics!
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Here's wishing you a pleasant
winter vacation
(perhaps to a warmer climate like this one)
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| 1 | 15 - Module Calendar,
Course Homepage, Instructor Homepage Numbers to call for help |
| 2 | PHCC Links |
| 3 | Grades - how this course is graded |
| 4 | Proctors - how to request a proctor (for taking exams at locations other than our Learning Resource Center at PHCC) |
| 5 | Guidance for Projects 1, 2, 3, and 4 |
| 6 | Financial Aid Verification - how to send me your request |
| 7 | Six Initial Steps for Success (for first-time students) |
| 8 | Syllabus, Meet the Instructor, MyEconLab,
Student Affidavit ("I'm read to begin" statement) |
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Modified 15
Module Calendar |
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Chapter Assigned (read text & do study guide) |
Lesson Plan 1 Lesson Plan 2 |
Chapter Checklist (master these learning goals) |
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| 6 | Production and Costs | 1 - Oct 04 2 - Oct 09 |
12.1, 12.2 12.3, 12.4 |
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| 7 | Perfect Competition | 1 - Oct 11 2 - Oct 16 |
13.1, 13.2 13.3 |
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| 8 | Monopoly | 1 - Oct 23 2 - Oct 25 |
14.1, 14.2, 14.3 14.4, 14.5 |
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| 9 | Oligopoly | 1 - Oct 30 2 - Nov 01 |
15.1, 15.2 15.3 |
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| 10 | Review and take Exam #2 | 1 - Nov 06 2 - Nov 08 |
Exam #2 consists of 33 fill-in-the-blank, true/false, multiple choice, graph-the-graph, short answer, numeric questions and practice problems taken directly from your text and study guide on these learning goals only. | |
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Chapter Assigned (read text & do study guide) |
Lesson Plan 1 Lesson Plan 2 |
Chapter Checklist (master these learning goals) |
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| 11 | Oligopoly | 1 - Nov 13 2 - Nov 15 |
16.1, 16.2 16.3 |
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| 12 | Regulation and Antitrust Law | 1 - Nov 20 2 - Nov 27 |
17.1 17.2 |
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| 13 | Demand & Supply in Factor Markets | 1 - Nov 29 2 - Dec 04 |
18.1, 18.2, 18.3 18.4, 18.5 |
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| 14 | Inequality and Poverty | 1 - Dec 06 2 - Dec 11 |
19.1, 19.2 19.3 |
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| 15 | Review and take Exam #3 | 1 - Dec 13 2 - Dec 18 |
Exam #3 consists of 33 fill-in-the-blank, true/false, multiple choice, graph-the-graph, short answer, numeric questions and practice problems taken directly from your text and study guide on these learning goals only. | |
Last update: 04.30.2007
Page Created and Modified by Tom Meyer
