Reconsidering Crucial Concepts in Micro Principles

It is the Principles of Microeconomics course that connects the discipline to the world and establishes its relevance. What most professors do is compromise. They teach a full semester of microeconomics, they focus a good deal of attention on core concepts, and try to provide a degree of rigor for t...

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Published inThe American economic review Vol. 92; no. 2; pp. 454 - 458
Main Author Case, Karl E.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Nashville American Economic Association 01.05.2002
Subjects
Capital goods
Capital investments
College students
Conceptualization
Consumer economics
Consumption
Cost control
Economic theory
Economics
Economics education
Government
Guidelines
Investments
Microeconomics
Opportunity costs
Public goods
Students
Substitution effect
Supply and demand
Teaching
Teaching Microeconomic Principles
U.S.A
United States > US
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Summary:It is the Principles of Microeconomics course that connects the discipline to the world and establishes its relevance. What most professors do is compromise. They teach a full semester of microeconomics, they focus a good deal of attention on core concepts, and try to provide a degree of rigor for those with analytic ability. The purpose of this paper is to suggest a list of important goals and some new topics, and to offer some approaches to teaching them.
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ISSN:0002-8282
1944-7981
DOI:10.1257/000282802320191796