UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Department of Economics

Economics 1 (Cameron) - Principles of Microeconomics

The links in this index will send you to the lecture notes for my Winter 2000 Economics 1 course. I will leave these old notes in the public domain. Prior to printing them out, however, you may want to wait until any revisions for the current year have been put in place. Do not expect notes to be current any sooner than the day after the lecture to which they correspond.
Lecture Outline Inventory
# Subject Text Ch.
#1 Introduction, PPF's 1, 2
#2 Economist's Mindset
Comparative Advantage
2, 3
#3 Demand and Supply
Equilibrium Price Determination
4
#4 Elasticity
Own-price Demand, Income, and Supply
5
#5 Price Controls,
Tax incidence (burden of a tax)
6
#6 Consumer, Producer Surplus,
Deadweight loss from taxation
7,8
#7 International Trade
9
#8 Externalities
10
#9 Public Goods, Common Resources
11
#10 Deriving Short-Run Cost Curves
13
#11 Competitive Profit Maximization
14
#12 Monopoly
15
#13 Oligopoly
16
#14 Monopolistic Competition, Creative Destruction,
Dominant Firm Price Leadership
17
#15 Factor Markets (e.g. Labor)
18
#16 Earnings and Discrimination
19
#17 The Distribution of Income
20
#18 Consumer Theory: Indifference Curves
21
#19 Consumer Theory: Deriving Demand Curves
21

Prepared by: Trudy Ann Cameron;   Updated: 2:44 PM 1/10/00