经济学课程

第1周主题：Business Economics - The Big Picture Establishes the important themes of the course. Outlines learning approaches, the structure of the lectures and tutorials and the assessment items. Introduces important questions of economics - what economics studies, why and how economists approach these topics. Key principles include acknowledgement of scarcity the assumption of rationality, opportunity cost, economic surplus, s 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Business Economics - The Big Picture Establishes the important themes of the course. Outlines learning approaches, the structure of the lectures and tutorials and the assessment items. Introduces important questions of economics - what economics studies, why and how economists approach these topics. Key principles include acknowledgement of scarcity the assumption of rationality, opportunity cost, economic surplus, s”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第2周主题：Demand and Supply - Part 1. An introduction to markets. Understanding supply and demand, using supply and demand models in business decision making, predicting likely market responses to different choices and strategies ensuring efficient uses of resources. | Tutorial 2 Workshop based on Lecture 2 material 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Demand and Supply - Part 1. An introduction to markets. Understanding supply and demand, using supply and demand models in business decision making, predicting likely market responses to different choices and strategies ensuring efficient uses of resources. | Tutorial 2 Workshop based on Lecture 2 material”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第3周主题：Demand and Supply - Part 2. The concept of elasticity of demand and supply. Examine the application and implications of elasticity theory for business managers and pricing strategies. | Tutorial 3 Workshop based on Lecture 3 material. 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Demand and Supply - Part 2. The concept of elasticity of demand and supply. Examine the application and implications of elasticity theory for business managers and pricing strategies. | Tutorial 3 Workshop based on Lecture 3 material.”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第4周主题：Economic Efficiency and Market Failure. Defining key terms such as producer and consumer surplus, maximizing the surplus, and dead weight loss. Assessing the impacts on free markets where governments intervene. Examine price ceilings, price floors, black-markets, impacts of subsidies, quotas, and import tariffs, and the implications for businesses. | Tutorial 4 Workshop based on Lecture 4 material. 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Economic Efficiency and Market Failure. Defining key terms such as producer and consumer surplus, maximizing the surplus, and dead weight loss. Assessing the impacts on free markets where governments intervene. Examine price ceilings, price floors, black-markets, impacts of subsidies, quotas, and import tariffs, and the implications for businesses. | Tutorial 4 Workshop based on Lecture 4 material.”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第5周主题：Profit Maximising using Microeconomic Theory. Assess short run and long run productions costs of a firm, Total Cost, Average Cost, Marginal Cost. Introduce the theory of Perfect Competition as a basis for analyzing more realistic market structures. Examine a perfectly competitive firm s profit maximizing output, loss minimizing and shutdown situations. | Tutorial 5 Workshop based on Lecture 5 material. 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Profit Maximising using Microeconomic Theory. Assess short run and long run productions costs of a firm, Total Cost, Average Cost, Marginal Cost. Introduce the theory of Perfect Competition as a basis for analyzing more realistic market structures. Examine a perfectly competitive firm s profit maximizing output, loss minimizing and shutdown situations. | Tutorial 5 Workshop based on Lecture 5 material.”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第6周主题：Monopolies, Cartels and the ACCC. How monopolies emerge, how a monopoly maximizes profit, real world applications of the theory, the implications to society from both economic and business perspectives, the role of the ACCC and the economic theory behind their decisions, cartel behavior and some recent examples. | Tutorial 6 Workshop based on Lecture 6 material. 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Monopolies, Cartels and the ACCC. How monopolies emerge, how a monopoly maximizes profit, real world applications of the theory, the implications to society from both economic and business perspectives, the role of the ACCC and the economic theory behind their decisions, cartel behavior and some recent examples. | Tutorial 6 Workshop based on Lecture 6 material.”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第7周主题：Monopolistic Competition. Monopolistic firms, their business strategies and characteristics, profit maximising criteria, comparisons to other market structures and implications for strategic decision making. | Tutorial 7 Workshop based on Lecture 7 material. 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Monopolistic Competition. Monopolistic firms, their business strategies and characteristics, profit maximising criteria, comparisons to other market structures and implications for strategic decision making. | Tutorial 7 Workshop based on Lecture 7 material.”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第8周主题：Introduction to Macroeconomics. Key concepts - defining and measuring GDP, unemployment, inflation and CPI, interest rates along with other useful macroeconomic metrics. Economic growth and the Solow Growth Model (plus endogenous growth ideas). Limitations of these models, and how they affect businesses are discussed. | Tutorial 8 Workshop based in Lecture 8 material. 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Introduction to Macroeconomics. Key concepts - defining and measuring GDP, unemployment, inflation and CPI, interest rates along with other useful macroeconomic metrics. Economic growth and the Solow Growth Model (plus endogenous growth ideas). Limitations of these models, and how they affect businesses are discussed. | Tutorial 8 Workshop based in Lecture 8 material.”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第9周主题：Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply (AD-AS). Establish linkages between various economic variables using the AD-AS Model. Review reasons for shifts in aggregate demand and supply, and using the AD-AS model consider implications of various macroeconomic events. Show how the model is applied to predict real world possible outcomes from specific policy actions. | Tutorial 9 Workshop based on Lecture 9 material. 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply (AD-AS). Establish linkages between various economic variables using the AD-AS Model. Review reasons for shifts in aggregate demand and supply, and using the AD-AS model consider implications of various macroeconomic events. Show how the model is applied to predict real world possible outcomes from specific policy actions. | Tutorial 9 Workshop based on Lecture 9 material.”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第10周主题：Fiscal Policy. Define and apply Fiscal Policy. Government deficits and surplus, levels of debt, crowding out private investment. Understanding the various policy measures governments take to stabilise economies during periods of boom and bust . Applying theoretical models to help analyse fiscal policy decisions. Adopt the models to provide a framework to appreciate the ongoing political debates about an economy. Exam 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Fiscal Policy. Define and apply Fiscal Policy. Government deficits and surplus, levels of debt, crowding out private investment. Understanding the various policy measures governments take to stabilise economies during periods of boom and bust . Applying theoretical models to help analyse fiscal policy decisions. Adopt the models to provide a framework to appreciate the ongoing political debates about an economy. Exam”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第11周主题：Monetary Policy. Define Monetary Policy, describe its main roles and how the RBA affects interest rates. Monetary Policy and its impact in economic activity. Applying theoretical models to help analyse monetary policy decisions. Adopt the models to provide a framework to appreciate the ongoing political debates about an economy. Examine how to apply the models to make more informed strategic business decisions. | Tut 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Monetary Policy. Define Monetary Policy, describe its main roles and how the RBA affects interest rates. Monetary Policy and its impact in economic activity. Applying theoretical models to help analyse monetary policy decisions. Adopt the models to provide a framework to appreciate the ongoing political debates about an economy. Examine how to apply the models to make more informed strategic business decisions. | Tut”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第12周主题：Guest Industry Speaker (to be advised). 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Guest Industry Speaker (to be advised).”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。

第13周主题：Special Topic Discussion Special Topic 本周先完成 Lecture/Reading 的概念梳理，再用 tutorial 或题目验证理解，重点是把概念转成可解释的步骤。 学习重点：围绕“Special Topic Discussion Special Topic”识别关键术语、方法边界和常见误区，输出一页结构化笔记（定义、方法、例题、易错点）。 实操建议：至少完成 2-3 个与本周主题直接相关的练习，并记录每题的假设与推导过程，避免只记结论。 交付与复盘：对照 ECON7012 的 assessment 要求检查本周产出，保留可复用模板用于后续周和考前复盘。