ECO 176 Microeconomic Principles

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Course Details

  • Online | Asynchronous 
  • December 19, 2024 – January 10, 2025
  • 3 credits | $1,875
  • Last day to register: December 20, 2024
  • Cornerstone requirement satisfied by the course: Social Scientific Inquiry
  • Pre-requisites: ECO 176 (or equivalent First-Year Seminar)

Course Overview

This course offers an introduction to the market system, emphasizing economic interactions among individuals, business firms, and government. Topics will include supply and demand, economic decision making, social efficiency, the theory of consumer behavior, perfect and imperfect competition, labor markets, and market failures. Issues such as the environment, taxation, and income distribution also will be addressed. 

Additional Information

Faculty will contact all students after the Friday, December 20, registration deadline.

About the Instructor

Khai Z. Sim

Assistant Professor of Economics
Assistant Professor of Economics Khai Zhi Sim joined the Stonehill College community in 2023. His teaching and research interests include macroeconomics and banking. His recent research focuses on bank moral hazard that arises from government bailouts and the prediction of bank failures with machine learning.

Previously, Sim was an assistant professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is currently attaining credentials to become a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

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