週次

Week

課程主題

Topic

課程內容與指定閱讀

Content and Reading Assignment

教學活動與作業

Teaching Activities and Homework

學習投入時間

Student workload expectation

課堂講授

In-class Hours

課程前後

Outside-of-class Hours

1

(9/17)

Introduction

Introduction of the course, ten principles of economics

Thinking like an economist

(Ch.1-2)

Lecture

3

3

2

(9/24)

Market Mechanism 1

Interdependence and the gains from trade, The market forces of supply and demand

(Ch.3-4)

Lecture

3

3

3

(10/1)

No class (National Holiday)

4

(10/8)

Market Mechanism 2

Elasticity and its application

(Ch.5)

Lecture

3

3

5

(10/15)

Market Mechanism 3

Consumers, Producers, and the efficiency of the market

(Ch.6)

1^st Homework

3

3

6

(10/22)

Market and Welfare 1

Supply, demand and government policies

(Ch.7)

Lecture

3

3

7

(10/29)

Market and Welfare 2

Application: The costs of taxation

(Ch.8)

1^st Homework Due

3

3

8

(11/5)

FIRST MID TERM (Ch. 1-6)

Exam

3

3

9

(11/12)

Market and Welfare 3

Application: International trade

(Ch. 9)

2^nd Homework

3

3

10

(11/19)

Market and Welfare 4

Externalities

Public goods and common resources

(Ch.10-11)

Lecture

3

3

11

(11/26)

Firm Behavior and Industrial organization 1

The costs of production, Firms in competitive markets

(Ch.13-14)

2^nd Homework Due

3

3

12

(12/3)

SECOND MID TERM (Ch. 7-14)

Exam

3

3

13

(12/10)

Firm Behavior and Industrial organization 2

Monopoly

(Ch.15)

Lecture

3

3

14

(12/17)

Firm Behavior and Industrial organization 3

Monopolistic competition, Oligopoly

(Ch.16-17)

3^rd Homework

3

3

15

(12/24)

Topics for Further study

1

The markets of the factors of production

Ch.18

Lecture

3

3

16

(12/31)

Topics for Further study

2

The theory of consumer choice

Frontiers of microeconomics

(Ch.21-22)

3^rd Homework Due

3

3

17

(1/7)

Review session

Review session

Lecture

3

3

18

(1/9)

JOINT FINAL EXAM

Exam

3