This course is designed to cover the microeconomics portion of the traditional college-level introductory economics course. Course work emphasizes supply and demand, the profit maximizing production level for firms, decisions regarding the use of labor and other resources, and the role of government in economics. The course prepares students to take the Advanced Placement exam.Required materials:
Textbook: ECONOMICS (McConnell & Brue)Supplementary materials:
Additional books.
1. Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner.
2. The Undercover Economist by Tim Hardford
3. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
4. The Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life by Steven E. Landsburg, University
of Rochester
5. Murder at the margin: A Henry Spearman Mystery by Marshall Jevons
6. Nickled and DImed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
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