ECO2020 - MICROECONOMICS
Fall 2011 Schedule
Professor Matthew Turner
Department of Economics
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

Topics that we will cover are: preferences, utility, expected utility, the consumer's problem, production, the firm's problem, social choice.

Your goal in this course should be to master all of the material presented, along with its mathematical underpinnings, and, also to learn to communicate this understanding. A good way to do this is to is to do the homework problems meticulously. In addition, each time we look at a new model and begin to try to understand it, try to pay attention to the steps that we go through . When you write your thesis, you will probably be developing and analyzing a model. A good way to learn to do this is to watch how it is done in these texts.

The course will consist of two lectures per week, T/TH 9:10-11, about six problem sets, and a two hour final. I will collect three of the six problem sets at random. Problem set scores will count for 10% of your grade and the final will count 90%.

A description of required and recommended texts is available here

Rotmann students interested in access to the economics department internal website, please contact Martin Osborne. The internal site is where we post old comprehensive exams that you might not otherwise see..

Announcements:

Make-up class: Friday October 14, 7:30-9:30am, #106, 150 St. George
We have a new room for our Tuesday lectures: McLennan Physical Labs, 255 Huron Street, Room 134.

Date	Reading	Problems	Solutions
Before September 13	All math appendices in MWG `How to Solve it'
September 13	Ch. 1 and 2	Due Sept 20.
September 15	Ch. 3, to p50
September 20	Ch. 3, p50-57	Due Sept 27.
September 22	Math Appendices M,C,D,K
September 27	Ch. 3,p57-67:	Due Oct 4.
September 29 Class cancelled
Oct 4	Ch. 3, p67-75
October 6	Ch. 3 to end.
October 11	Ch. 4	not collected.
October 13	Ch. 5
October 14	Ch.5	not collected.
October 18	Ch. 6
October 20	Final exam	Final 2011 Final 2010 Final 2009