Welcome to Intermediate Microeconomics

Jim Lacey

I’m Dr. James Lacey and am pleased to be your instructor for this term.

Our official start/end dates are: 01/28/2025 to 03/17/2025, but you can begin in module Week 1 anytime.

Required text: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Thiel & Masters (2014)

I strongly suggest that you borrow Zero to One from the library, either via the EC library or your local public library. (Our local NOBLE library network has 13 copies!) But you can buy it from Amazon for $21 or Kindle for $15 (as of Jan 14). I didn't list it via the EC Bookstore because they probably will charge list price. Please get your copy of Zero to One by the time our course officially begins on Jan 28.

About the course title, in Microeconomics 202, you learned the basic vocabulary and models used in microeconomics, and this course (ECN302) covers roughly the same ground at a higher level, adding more tools for analysis, and opening up the use of journal literature in exploring the field. We also focus on start-ups and the direct application of economics to business success. So it is "Intermediate," beyond a basic course.

Except for Zero to One, the textbooks we use are from Openstax and totally free to read online.

Also look at the discussions in module 1, and post by the end of our first week.

Here is a link our weekly schedule:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16J58kc5t2quy7xJaDwh-pjZWHFlCDrbbkh8jEkQNknU/edit?usp=sharing

Dr. L.