Lecture	Topic
1	Introduction and Mathematical Background
2	Consumer Problem: Budget Constraints and Revealed Preference
3	Consumer Preferences; Indifference Curves; Utility Functions; ConsumerOptimization
4	Two Solved Problems and One Policy Application of the Theory ofthe Consumer
5	Marshallian Demand Curves; Engel Curves
6	Hicksian Demand Curves; Slutsky Decomposition
7	Substitutes and Complements; Composite Commodities
8	Compensating variation; Equivalent variation; Consumer surplus
9	Measuring Market Demand Elasticities
10	Theory of the Firm: Technology
11	Theory of the Firm: Cost Minimization
12	Firm Objectives; Profit Maximization and Supply
13	Exchange; Edgeworth Boxes
14	Choice under Uncertainty
15	Partial Equilibrium; Tax Incidence
16	General Equilibrium; Walras’ Law
17	Welfare Properties of General Equilibrium
18	Externalities and Public Goods; Coase Theorem
19	Social Choice; Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem

(taught at UCLA Department of Economics--Spring 2001)