INTRODUCTION TO MICROECONOMICS

The goal of this course is to familiarize you with the economy and microeconomic reasoning, and it has been designed both for students who will go on to major in economics and those who will never take another economics course. 

We will use a new paradigm called CORE (Curriculum Open-access Resources for Economics) that was launched in 2017.  As a contributor to CORE, I would like to share with you the CORE vision, as quoted from www.core-econ.org:

CORE’s vision is that a radically transformed economics education can contribute to a more just, sustainable, and democratic world in which future citizens are empowered by a new economics to understand and debate how best to address pressing societal problems.

OUR MISSION TO ACHIEVE OUR VISION

• change economics education globally to a focus on the most important problems faced by our societies including climate change, injustice, innovation and the future of work,
• put the student at the centre of pedagogy using learning materials and experiences attuned both to the societal problems that students care about and to how students acquire facility and confidence in using and communicating economics,
• make knowledge freely available on a global scale by providing high-quality open access educational resources,
• help change who studies economics to include more women and other underrepresented groups by changing content, pedagogy and access to knowledge.