Welcome to my Econ 101 Spring 2024 website. All relevant information can also be found on canvas. Here you will find handouts and their solutions, which are also posted on canvas. You will also find my summary notes for relative chapters for each exam below as well as additional notes that I covered in Discussion Sections.

Discussion Handouts

Week 1: Handout 1, Solutions, and my notes

Week 2: Handout 2, Solutions, my notes, and quiz 1 alternative solutions

Week 3: Handout 3, Solutions, and my notes

Week 4: Exam 1 Handout 4 and Solutions (from Review Session)

Week 5: Handout 5, Solutions, and my notes

Week 6: Handout 6 and Solutions

Week 7: Handout 7 and Solutions

Week 8: Handout 8 and Solutions

Week 9: Handout 9 and Solutions

Week 10: Spring Break

Week 11: Exam 2 Review session 

Week 12: Handout 10 and Solutions & my notes and extensions

Week 13: Handout 11 and Solutions & my notes: Price Leadership

Week 14: Handout 12 and Solutions

Week 15: Final Exam!! GOOD LUCK

Summary Notes

* I have written these notes and they are neither meant to be exclusive or exhaustive.  Make sure you go over all lecture notes, discussion handouts and practice problems posted on canvas.

Midterm 1: Chapter 2-5 Notes

Chapter 2: Opportunity Cost, Absolute and Comparative Advantage

Chapter 3 & 4: Demand, Supply and Market Equilibrium and Applications

Chapter 5: Elasticity

Midterm 2: Chapter 6-10, 12

• 1. Consumer Theory Notes    Supplement 

  2. Production Process

  3. Short Run Costs & Output decisions

  4. Long Run Costs & Output Decisions

  5. Input Markets and Efficiency

Final Exam: (Cumulative!) New Notes: 

• 1. Monopoly 

  2. Oligopoly (Collusion/Cartel, Cournot, Price Leadership, Game Theory)

  3. Monopolistic Competition

  4. Public Goods, Externalities and Taxation