{"id":886,"date":"2019-11-18T15:20:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/?p=886"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:34:16","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:34:16","slug":"online-course-principles-of-microeconomics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/browse-by-training\/online-course-principles-of-microeconomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Course: MIT “Principles of Microeconomics”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\tTraining Courses: MIT Open Courseware\n\t<\/h4>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\tOnline: “Principles of Microeconomics”\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h1>\n

\n\t\t\n\t\tMIT Open Courseware\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/h3>\n\t

Photo from Blue Ox Studio on Pexels<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Focus:<\/strong><\/p>\n

This course provides an introduction to the foundations of microeconomics. Topics include consumer and firm behaviors, supply and demand, production decisions, thinking about trade-offs between equity and efficiency, and different types of market structures.<\/p>\n

Units include:<\/p>\n

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  1. Supply and Demand<\/li>\n
  2. Consumer Theory<\/li>\n
  3. Producer Theory<\/li>\n
  4. Welfare Economics<\/li>\n
  5. Monopoly and Oligopoly<\/li>\n
  6. Topics in Intermediate Microeconomics<\/li>\n
  7. Equity and Efficiency<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The course includes a full set of lecture videos with English subtitles, reading assignments (a free textbook is available on the site, another can be purchased on Amazon); quizzes, problem sets, and exams with answer keys; and resources for further study.<\/p>\n\t

    Style: <\/strong>self-paced<\/p>\n\t

    Cost: <\/strong>Free<\/p>\n\t

    Estimated Time:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    If you went through all the coursework, the work would be equivalent to that of a semester-long class.<\/p>\n\n\t

    Target Audience:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    For prospective students looking to prepare for CDE coursework, or alums who are wanting a refresher on some foundational economics concepts.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tView the course online\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This online course in the foundations of microeconomics from MIT Open courseware provides an online textbook and video lectures that cover the core concepts of basic microeconomics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2197,"featured_media":1339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"tpl-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[79,353,74,46,351],"tags":[304,190,527,301,167,528,529,305,530],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-5-hours","category-e-learning","category-time-required","category-browse-by-training","category-training-format-and-topics","tag-consumer-theory","tag-e-learning","tag-elasticity","tag-foundational-knowledge","tag-microeconomics","tag-online-course","tag-self-paced","tag-supply-and-demand","tag-video-lecture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cdealumniresources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}