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    The document provides minutes from a meeting of the Department of Economics course committee at Delhi School of Economics. The committee decided to maintain the same syllabus for the B.A. (Hons) Economics third semester Intermediate Microeconomics I course as the previous year. The course is designed to provide a sound foundation in microeconomic theory using mathematical tools. The course outline covers consumer theory, including choice, demand, and decision-making under risk and over time. It also covers production, costs, and perfect competition, examining technology, costs, and market structure.

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    The document provides minutes from a meeting of the Department of Economics course committee at Delhi School of Economics. The committee decided to maintain the same syllabus for the B.A. (Hons) Economics third semester Intermediate Microeconomics I course as the previous year. The course is designed to provide a sound foundation in microeconomic theory using mathematical tools. The course outline covers consumer theory, including choice, demand, and decision-making under risk and over time. It also covers production, costs, and perfect competition, examining technology, costs, and market structure.

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    DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS

    DELHI SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS


    UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

    Minutes of Meeting

    Subject: B.A. (Hons) Economics – Third Semester (CBCS)


    Course: 05 - Intermediate Microeconomics - I
    Date of Meeting: Wednesday, 4th May, 2016
    Venue: Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics,
    University of Delhi, Delhi – 110 007
    Chair: Dr. Anirban Kar

    Attended by:

    1 Anil S. Kakrody HRC


    2 Rajiv Jha SRCC
    3 Shashibala Garg LSR
    4 Leema Paliwal St. Stephen
    5 Pintu Parui Ramjas
    6 Savitri Sidona ARSD
    7 Vandana Dyal Singh
    8 Shilpa Chaudhary JDM
    9 Ravinder Jha MH
    10 Naveen Thomas Jesus & Marry College
    11 Shikha Singh DRC
    12 Shalini Saksena DCAC
    13 Surajit Deb Arya Bhatt

    The course Committee decided to maintain the same syllabus as last year.

    Course Description

    The course is designed to provide a sound training in microeconomic theory. Since students are
    already familiar with the quantitative techniques in the previous semesters, mathematical tools are
    used to facilitate understanding of the basic concepts. This course looks at the behaviour of the
    consumer and the producer and also covers the behaviour of a competitive firm.

    Course Outline

    1. Consumer Theory

    Preference; utility; budget constraint; choice; demand; Slutsky equation; buying and selling;
    choice under risk and intertemporal choice; revealed preference.

    (a) Hal Varian (2010): Chapters 2-10, Chapter 12.1-12.4.


    (b) B. Douglas Bernheim and M. Whinston (2009): Chapter 11.

    2. Production, Costs and Perfect Competition

    Technology, isoquants, production with one and more variable inputs, returns to scale, short run
    and long run costs, cost curves in the short and long run; review of perfect competition.

    (a) C. Snyder and W. Nicholson (2010): Chapters 9-11.

    Readings

    1. Hal Varian (2010): Intermediate Microeconomics: A Modern Approach, 8th edition, Affiliated
    East West Press (India). The workbook by Varian and Bergstrom could be used for problems.

    2. B. Douglas Bernheim and M. Whinston (2009): Microeconomics, Tata McGraw Hill (India).

    3. C. Snyder and W. Nicholson (2010): Fundamentals of Microeconomics, Cengage Learning


    (India).

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