William Rainey Harper College ECO 211 Microeconomics: An Introduction to Economic Efficiency Fall 2009

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WHEN E-MAILING YOUR INSTRUCTOR: Always put "ECO 211" and a message in the subject line of all e-mails sent to the instructor. BLACKBOARD NOTE: All students must log-in to our Blackboard website, study the syllabus, and take the required 5-point, online, "Syllabus Quiz" before Thursday, Sept. 3. The syllabus quiz may be taken as many times as necesssary and only the highest score will be counted.. Go to http://harper.blackboard.com Follow the instructions to "log-in", If you need help see the following on the Blackboard opening page: "Getting Started with Blackboard" "Student Blackboard Technical Support" You should see "ECO 211- Fall 2009 - Microeconomics (Healy)" If you do not please e-mail the instructor: mhealy@harpercollege.edu  COURSE DESCRIPTION This course will cover the area of economics commonly defined as microeconomics which is concerned with the individual parts of the economy such as individual businesses or industries, individual consumers, and individual products. Our goal is to study whether the economy uses our limited resources to obtain the maximum satisfaction possible for society. We will concentrate on three goals: ALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCY, PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY, and EQUITY.

INSTRUCTOR:

Mark Healy
E-Mail instructor: mhealy@harpercollege.edu
Office: J-262,
Office Hours
Phone: 847-925-6352
Home: 815-728-1571
Cell: 815-861-7265