Principles of microeconomics: lecture materials

lecture notes provided online by John Kane, SUNY Oswego

Part of the support materials for Eco 101 – Principles of Microeconomics as taught by John Kane of SUNY Oswego. Notes from twenty lectures are available here as ordinary Web pages with graphics, as Flash videos with an audio narration and as PowerPoint presentations.

Online lecture materials

Chapter 1 – Introduction	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 2 – Opportunity Costs	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 3 – Demand and Supply	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 4 – Market System	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 5 – Public Sector	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 6 – Elasticity	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 7 – Consumer Choice	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 8 – Production, Costs, and Supply	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 9 – Profit Maximization	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 10 – Perfect Competition	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 11 – Monopoly	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 12 – Monopolistic Competition and Oligopoly	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 13 – Antitrust and Regulation	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 14 – Government and Market Failure	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 15 – Resource Markets	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 16 – Labor Market	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 17 – Capital and Financial Markets	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 18 – The Land Market and Natural Resources	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 19 – Aging, Social Security, and Health Care	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow
Chapter 20 – Income Distribution and Poverty	single document HTML format	Macromedia Flash format (w/audio)	PowerPoint slideshow

Supplemental Readings

1. Introduction (Chapters 1 and 2) - School vouchers
2. Demand and supply (Chapter 3) - Do slave redemption programs reduce the problem of slavery? (revised topic)
3. Private and public sectors (Chapters 4 and 5) – no supplemental readings
4. Elasticity (Chapter 6) – no supplemental readings
5. Consumer choice and demand – (Chapter 7) - Capital punishment
6. Productivity and costs (Chapter 8) – no supplemental readings
7. Product markets (Chapter 9) – no supplemental readings
8. Perfect competition (Chapter 10) - Should there be a market for human organs?
9. Monopoly (Chapter 11) - Is Microsoft a Monopolist?
10. Monopolistic competition and oligopoly (Chapters 12 and 13) – No supplemental readings
11. Resource markets (Chapter 14) – No supplemental readings
12. Labor markets (Chapters 15 and 16) – No supplemental readings
13. Capital, resource markets, and the environment (Chapters 17 and 18) – No supplemental reading

Society at a Glance 2011: OECD Social Indicators

This is the sixth edition of Society at a Glance, the OECD’s biennial overview of social indicators. As with its predecessors, this report addresses the growing demand for quantitative evidence on social well-being and its trends across OECD countries. It updates some indicators included in the previous five editions and introduces several new ones.

The 2011 report heralds the arrival of four new OECD member countries: Chile, Estonia, Israel and Slovenia. These countries are included in Society at a Glance for the first time. Data on Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, the Russian Federation, and South Africa are also included separately where available.

This report features a special chapter on unpaid work (Chapter 1.). It also provides a guide to help readers in understanding the structure of OECD social indicators (Chapter 2.), and a summary of the main trends (Chapter 3.). Indicators are then considered. More detailed information on indicators, including some not included in this print edition, can be found on the OECD web pages (www.oecd.org/els/social/indicators/SAG).

This report was prepared by Simon Chapple and Maxime Ladaique. Nabil Ali, Michael De Looper, Michael Förster, Pauline Fron, Herwig Immervoll, Gaetan Lafortune, Thomas Liebig, Pascal Marianna, Veerle Miranda (special chapter), Marlène Mohier, Dominique Paturot, Andrew Reilly, Dominic Richardson, Kim Robin and Olivier Thévenon all made valuable contributions. Monika Queisser, Head of the OECD Social Policy Division, supervised the report.

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Social data and indicators:

1. Cooking and caring, building and repairing: Unpaid work around the world: Chapter1.pdf

See Methodological documentation of national time-use surveys in Table A1.2 pp36-39 in Miranda (2011)

See also the special Chapter on Measuring Leisure in OECD Countries  from Society at a Glance 2009

2. Interpreting OECD social indicators3. Society at a Glance: An overview 4. General Context Indicators Household income Fertility Migration Family Old age support rate 5. Self-sufficiency Indicators Employment Unemployment Student performance Pensionable year Education spending 6. Equity Indicators Income inequality Poverty Income difficulties Leaving low income from benefits Social spending 7. Health Indicators Life expectancy Infant mortality Positive and negative experiences Water and air quality Health spending 8. Social Cohesion Indicators Trust Confidence in social institutions Pro- and anti-social behaviour Voting Tolerance

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Economic Policy Reforms 2011 : Going for Growth

The global recovery from the deepest recession since the Great Depression is under way, but it remains overly dependent on macroeconomic policy stimulus and has not yet managed to significantly reduce high and persistent unemployment in many countries. Going for Growth 2011 highlights the structural reforms needed to restore long-term growth in the wake of the crisis. For each OECD country and, for the first time, six key emerging economies (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa), five reform priorities are identified that would be most effective in delivering sustained growth over the next decade. The analysis shows that many of these reforms could also assist much-needed fiscal consolidation and contribute to reducing global current account imbalances. The internationally comparable indicators provided here enable countries to assess their economic performance and structural policies in a wide range of areas. In addition, this issue contains three analytical chapters covering hsing policies, te efficiency of health care systems and the links between structural policies and current account imbalances.

 

This is an OECD publication

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