Luke C.D. Stein — Stanford Econ. 202N
Autumn, 2007 and Autumn, 2008
Theory of the consumer and the implications of constrained maximization; uses of indirect utility and expenditure functions; theory of the producer, profit maximization, and cost minimization; behavior under uncertainty; partial equilibrium analysis and introduction to models of general equilibrium.
Course resources
Text: A. Mas-Colell, M. Whinston, J. Green: Microeconomic Theory
Course website [Stanford access only]
Course blog
Lecture slides 
The full course (or animated version for projection) contains
Producer theory, including mathematical appendix
My slides draw on notes by Featherstone, Levin, Milgrom, and Segal, as well as Mas-Colell, Whinston, and Green: Microeconomic Theory
Other references
Section notes (by Clayton Featherstone, 2007 TA)
Selected student feedback
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