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This course aims to equip students with the fundamental principles and analytical tools of microeconomics. By covering economic decision-making processes, the supply-demand mechanism, elasticity, market efficiency, production costs, and different market structures (perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, oligopoly), the course develops students' competence in analysing market functioning and developing a critical perspective on economic phenomena.

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* N. Gregory Mankiw, (2021) Principles of Microeconomics, Cengage Learning. * David Shapiro, Daniel MacDonald, Steven A. Greenlaw et al., (2022) Principles of Microeconomics, OpenStax (Rice University).* Karl E. Case, Ray C. Fair, Sharon E. Oster, (2019) Principles of Microeconomics, Global Edition, Pearson.* Stevenson, Betsey;Wolfers, Justin, (2019) Principles of Microeconomics, Worth Publishers.* Magnus Hoffmann; Martin Kolmar, (2022) Workbook for Principles of Microeconomics, Classroom companion.

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