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This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.
Microeconomics focuses on patterns of supply and demand and the determination of price and output in individual markets. (Image by Darren Hester on Flickr.)
Prof. Parag Pathak
14.121
Fall 2009
Graduate
This half-semester course provides an introduction to microeconomic theory designed to meet the needs of students in the economics Ph.D. program. Some parts of the course are designed to teach material that all graduate students should know. Others are used to introduce methodologies. Topics include consumer and producer theory, markets and competition, general equilibrium, and tools of comparative statics and their application to price theory. Some topics of recent interest may also be covered.
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Archived versions: 
Parag Pathak. 14.121 Microeconomic Theory I, Fall 2009. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), https://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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