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15.024 | Summer 2004 | Graduate

# Applied Economics for Managers

#### Course Description

The fact of scarcity forces individuals, firms, and societies to choose among alternative uses – or allocations – of its limited resources. Accordingly, the first part of this summer course seeks to understand how economists model the choice process of individual consumers and firms, and how markets work to coordinate …

The fact of scarcity forces individuals, firms, and societies to choose among alternative uses – or allocations – of its limited resources. Accordingly, the first part of this summer course seeks to understand how economists model the choice process of individual consumers and firms, and how markets work to coordinate these choices. It also examines how well markets perform this function using the economist’s criterion of market efficiency.

Overall, this course focuses on microeconomics, with some topics from macroeconomics and international trade. It emphasizes the integration of theory, data, and judgment in the analysis of corporate decisions and public policy, and in the assessment of changing U.S. and international business environments.

## Course Info

##### Instructor

- Prof. Daniel Richards

##### Departments

- Sloan School of Management

##### Topics

- Business
  - Management
- Social Science
  - Economics
    - Industrial Organization
    - Microeconomics

##### Learning Resource Types

assignment Problem Sets
grading Exams
notes Lecture Notes
Supply and demand determine a product’s equilibrium price and quantity. (Graph courtesy of Prof. Daniel Richards. Background image courtesy of Ken Hammond, U.S. Department of Agriculture.)

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