Education: Ph.D. Economics and Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University M.A. Economics, Michigan State University B.A. Economics and Business, Kalamazoo College
Interests: Resource economics, ecological economics, economic history, public economics
ECON 211-001 MICRO-ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES Introduction to the ideas and tools economists use to understand human behavior constrained by scarce resources. Analytical tools introduced include supply and demand analysis, elasticities, models of perfect and imperfect competition. These tools will be used to study topics such as consumer and producer decision making, taxation, environmental quality and health care. Three hours per week. Meets General Education IIIB or IIIC (Prior to Fall 2008: IIB).
ECON 211-002 MICRO-ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES Introduction to the ideas and tools economists use to understand human behavior constrained by scarce resources. Analytical tools introduced include supply and demand analysis, elasticities, models of perfect and imperfect competition. These tools will be used to study topics such as consumer and producer decision making, taxation, environmental quality and health care. Three hours per week. Meets General Education IIIB or IIIC (Prior to Fall 2008: IIB).
ECON 306-001 INTERMEDIATE MICRO-THEORY Study of supply and demand relationships under the various market classifications. Major topics include the market forms, the principles of production, costs of production, resource allocation and income distribution with some discussion of welfare economics. Prerequisites: C or better in all of the following: ECON 211, ECON 212, MATH 155, MATH 160 (or 201). Three hours per week.
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