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This course prepares students for prospective graduate studies in microeconomics. Topics covered include essential topics for the 1st year microeconomics sequence in a standard PhD program, such as individual decision-making, expected utility theory, game theory and mechanism design.
本课程将以严谨的数理方法介绍微观经济学的理论基础，为有志于经济学研究的学生在将来硕士/博士阶段的学习提供准备和参考。授课内容涵盖国内外大多数经济学博士项目基础课的微观理论部分，即个人决策、期望收益理论、博弈论、简单的机制设计等。
This is a comprehensive textbook covering all of the topics taught in the graduate-level, two-semester course in microeconomic theory required of all graduate students in economics. It combines the results of the authors' experience of teaching microeconomics at Harvard and has been fully classroom tested.
Essential Microeconomics is designed to help us deepen their understanding of the core theory of microeconomics. Unlike other texts, this book focuses on the most important ideas and does not attempt to be encyclopedic. Two-thirds of the textbook focuses on price theory. As well as taking a new look at standard equilibrium theory, there is extensive examination of equilibrium under uncertainty, the capital asset pricing model, and arbitrage pricing theory. Choice over time is given extensive coverage and includes a basic introduction to control theory. The final third of the book, on game theory, provides a comprehensive introduction to models with asymmetric information.
