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Paper IA: Microeconomic Principles
Full Marks 50: Total Lectures 90
Unit
Topic
Lectures (No)
1
The Economic Way of Thinking
18
1.1 Normative Economics and Positive Economics - Methodology
1.2 Wants, Scarcity, Competing Ends and Choice - Defining Economics
1.3 Basic Economic Questions, Microeconomics and Macroeconomics.
Lipsey, Chapter 1 and Chapter 4. Mankiw, chapter 2.
1.4 Principles of Microeconomics – principles of individual decision making
and principles of economic interactions – Introduce trade Off,
Opportunity Cost, Efficiency, Marginal Changes and Cost-Benefit,
Trade, Market economy, Market failure, Externality and Market power.
Mankiw, Chapter 1, Stockman Chapter 1
1.5 Interdependence and the Gains from Trade – production possibilities
frontier and increasing costs, absolute and comparative advantage,
comparative advantage and gains from trade.
Mankiw, Chapter 3, Stockman Chapter 2.
2
Market and Adjustments
25
2.1 The Evolution of Market Economies. Price System and the Invisible
Hand.
Lipsey Chapter 5, (page 59-61).
2.2 The Decision-takers – households, firms and central authorities
2.3 The Concepts of Markets – individual market, separation of individual
markets, interlinking of individual markets. Difference among markets
– competitiveness, goods and factor markets, free and controlled
markets. Market and non-market sectors, public and private sectors,
economies – free market, command and mixed.
2.4 Different Goods: Public goods, Private goods, Common resources and
Natural Monopolies
Lipsey Chapter 6, 67-71, Mankiw Chapter 11 (201-203), Lipsey and
Chrystal Chapter 13 (278).
2.5 Market and competition; Demand and its determinants; Supply and its
determinants; relation of Quantity Demand with Price (using arguments
of income and substitution effects); relation of Quantity Supply with
Price (using increasing costs argument); Laws of Demand and Supply;
Demand and Supply as Planning Curves; movement along and shift of
the curve; Demand, Supply and Other factors.
2.6 Equilibrium and Disequilibrium
2.7 Market Adjustment without Government (with illustrations)
Mankiw, Chapter 4. Lipsey and Chrystal, Chapter 3. Stockman Chapter
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Calcutta University Syllabus for BA/BSC (Honours and General) program