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ECP1100

Faculty of Business and Economics

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Business and Economics

Organisational Unit

Department of Economics

Coordinator(s)

Dr Andreas Leibbrandt

Offered

Peninsula

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

Economics as an area of knowledge. Economics in a business degree. Understanding economic policy. An analysis of markets: supply and demand; consumer behaviour; firm behaviour; cost of production and profit maximisation; behaviour of firms in different market structures; evaluation of market capitalist economic systems, economic efficiency, market failure, government failure; current economic policies, competition policy, privatisation and the funding of education.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

  1. understand theoretical concepts, analytical techniques as well as practical decision-making mechanisms and policy debates as they relate to economics issues
  2. understand the economic behaviour of individual consumers and producers and the cost of production in both the short and long runs
  3. understand the determinants of price and output outcomes under different market structures in both the short and long runs and the welfare implications of these outcomes
  4. understand virtues and shortcomings of free markets
  5. understand remedies to overcome market failure.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 50%
Examination: 50%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Andreas Leibbrandt

Prohibitions

ECB1101, ECC1000, ECW1101, PMM2020, ECF1100