Economics
Prabal Sen & Arundhati Sarkar Bose
Part A
MICROECONOMICS
Individual decision
making and functioning
of the product market. Part B
Instructor: Arundhati MACROECONOMICS
Sarkar Bose Functioning of the
Sessions: 1, 2, 8, 9 & 10 economy and Effect of
national level policy
making on aggregate
output and employment.
Instructor: Prabal Sen
Sessions: 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
Outlining the Course :
1. Demand, Supply and Market :
• How Consumers make choices about What to
buy? How much to buy? And What prices to
offer?
• How Suppliers make choices about What to
produce? How much to produce? And What
prices to charge?
2. Production & Cost: A Short Run
Analysis
• What determines cost of production?
• How is technology chosen to minimize
cost ?
3. Market: Perfectly competitive
market structure
• How does the buyers and sellers act if
there are many of them?
• Who decides the price and how if there
are many sellers?
• Is operating in such a market profitable?
4. Market: Monopolistic market
structure
• How does monopoly (a single seller)
exist?
• How is price and quantity to supply
decided in such a market?
5. Market: Oligopolistic market
structure
• How does the market function when
there are a few firms?
• How does each firm make strategies to
counter the strategies of other firms?
Evaluation :
• Quiz 1 30% On Part B (Macroeconomics)
• Quiz 2 30% On Part A (Microeconomics)
• Quiz 3 40% On both Part A and B