ECTS
ECTS Course Catalogue
Course details
Course code: RIPS10003o11Semester: 2011/2012 winter
Name: Microeconomics
Major: Production Engineering and Management
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 1
ECTS points: 3
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: Dr hab. Danuta Mierzwa, prof. nadzw.
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Student knows how to analyse economic phenomena and processes on a concrete marketplace from the point of view of business activity of certain subjects, i.e. purchasers, consumers, sellers and producers. Student can recognise separate market structures and determine balance of a company. Has the ability of assessing the position of a competing company and selecting alternative forms of activity. Knows principles of activity and laws regulating the markets of production factors.
Competences: After receiving credits for the course student can work in all economic-financial and management units, logistics departments of a company, as well as manage his own company.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of basics of mathematics and knowledge of society on the secondary school level.
Course content: Market. Law of supply, demand, market balance, flexibility. The household. Theory of consumer’s behaviour. Theory of production. Perfect and imperfect competition. Balance of a company. Alternative theories of a company. Competitive balance and elements of prosperity theory. Markets of production factors.
Recommended literature: Main literature: Mierzwa D.: Mikro- i makroekonomia. Kurs podstawowy. Wyd. Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego, Wrocław 2010. Complementary literature: Klimczak B.: Mikroekonomia. Wyd. AE, Wrocław 1998.
Assessment methods: Successful completion of classes - minimal level of knowledge – 60%
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