Course130104115118 lectures
Introduction to Microeconomics in Hindi and Without Calculus
Prof. Vimal Kumar · IIT Kanpur
Lectures
Week 1
- Lecture 01: Introduction
- Lecture 02: Definition and basic concepts (I)
- Lecture 03: Definition and basic concepts (II)
- Lecture 04: Nature of economics
- Lecture 05: Graph
- Lecture 06: Optimization
- Lecture 07: Economic models (I)
- Lecture 08: Economic models (II)
- Lecture 09: Example
- Lecture 10: Branches of economics
Week 2
- Lecture 11: Introduction to Demand, Supply and Equilibrium
- Lecture 12: Concept of Marginal Change
- Lecture 13: Demand I
- Lecture 14: Demand II
- Lecture 15: Factors affecting demand
- Lecture 16: Market Demand
- Lecture 17: Supply
- Lecture 18: Market Supply: An example
- Lecture 19: Factors Affecting Supply
Week 3
- Lecture 20 - Market Equilibrium
- Lecture 21 - Changes in Market Equilibrium
- Lecture 22 - Consumers and Producers Surplus
- Lecture 23 - Total Surplus
- Lecture 24 - Market Interventions
- Lecture 25 - Elasticity I
Week 4
- Lecture 26 - Elasticity II
- Lecture 27 - Elasticity III
- Lecture 28 - Other Elasticities
- Lecture 29 - Elasticity: One More Example
- Lecture 30 - Tax
- Lecture 31 - Incidence of Tax
- Lecture 32 - Ad-valorem tax and other taxation types
- Lecture 33 - Theory of consumer behaviour
- Lecture 34 - Budget Line and Budget Set
Week 5
- Lecture 35 - Budget line and Budget set some examples
- Lecture 36- Rationality
- Lecture 37- utility function
- Lecture 38- Continuity
- Lecture 39- Nonsatiation
- Lecture 40- Convexity
- Lecture 41- Indifference curve and MRS
- Lecture 42- Indifference curve an example
- Lecture 43- Utility more examples
- Lecture 44- Consumer Equilibrium
- Lecture 45- Optimisation some example-I
- Lecture 46- Optimisation some example-II
Week 6
- Lecture 47- Optimization precaution
- Lecture 48- Optimization economic interpretation
- Lecture 49- Optimization summary
- Lecture 50- Income and Price expansion path
- Lecture 51- Income and Substitution effect
- Lecture 52- Income and Substitution effects continued
- Lecture 53- Expenditure minimization
Week 7
- Lecture 54: Duality
- Lecture 55: Compensated and uncompensated demand
- Lecture 56: DBT Vs Subsidy
- Lecture 57: Producer theory - An Introduction
- Lecture 58: Types of firm
- Lecture 59: Technology and its representation
- Lecture 60: Average product and marginal product
- Lecture 61: An example to demonstrate the relationship between average, marginal and total product
- Lecture 62: Examples of production function
- Lecture 63: Time constraint and production function
- Lecture 64: Returns to scale
Week 8
- Lecture 65: Profit maximization: An introduction
- Lecture 66: Profit maximization II
- Lecture 67: Profit maximization: short run and long run
- Lecture 68: Profit maximization continued
- Lecture 69: Cost minimization
- Lecture 70: Cost minimization: some examples
- Lecture 71: Returns to scale and cost minimization
- Lecture 72: Cost minimization: Long run vs short run
- Lecture 73: Fixed cost, quasi fixed cost and variable cost
Week 9
- Lecture 74: Cost curve I
- Lecture 75: Cost curve II
- Lecture 76: Cost curve III
- Lecture 77: Cost curve IV
- Lecture 78: Market structure: An introduction
- Lecture 79: Perfect competition: An Introduction
- Lecture 80: Demand curve facing the firm
- Lecture 81: Supply from a competitive firm
- Lecture 82: Obtaining supply function
- Lecture 83: Profit function and producer's surplus
- Lecture 84: Free entry and exit in perfectly competitive market
Week 10
- Lecture 85: Conditions for profitability and production in a perfectly competitive market
- Lecture 86: Long run supply function in a perfectly competitive market
- Lecture 87: A solved example- long run supply function
- Lecture 88: Upward slopping supply function in long run
- Lecture 89: Introduction to monopoly
- Lecture 90: Reasons for monopoly
- Lecture 91: Profit maximization by the monopolist
- Lecture 92: Equilibrium in monopoly market
- Lecture 93: A monopolist doesn't have a supply curve
- Lecture 94: Monopoly power
- Lecture 95: Impact of taxes on a monopolist
- Lecture 96: A monopolist with multiplant
- Lecture 97: A monopolist in multimarket
Week 11
- Lecture 98: Price discrimination
- Lecture 99: First degree price discrimination
- Lecture 100: Second degree price discrimination
- Lecture 101: Third degree price discrimination
- Lecture 102: Public policy towards monopoly
- Lecture 103: Monopolistic competition: An introduction
- Lecture 104: Monopolistic competition in short run and long run
- Lecture 105:Monopolistic competition vs perfect competition in long run
- Lecture 106: Product differentiation
- Lecture 107: Game theory: An introduction
- Lecture 108: Nash equilibrium
Week 12
- Lecture 109: Matching pennies
- Lecture 110: Extensive form game
- Lecture 111: Game theory summary
- Lecture 112: Oligopoly an introduction
- Lecture 113: Duopoly
- Lecture 114: Equilibrium in Cournot competition
- Lecture 115: Equilibrium in Bertrand competition
- Lecture 116: Stackelberg competition
- Lecture 117: Collusion and cartel
- Lecture 118: Comparison of different market structures
Syllabus and materials
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Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kanpur
- Department
- Economics
- Teacher
- Prof. Vimal Kumar
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Economics
- Source
- NPTEL
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