Microeconomics: Foundations and Insights

About this course

Learn to think like an economist—and make better decisions. Microeconomics: Foundations and Insights gives you a practical foundation for understanding how individuals, businesses, and markets make choices when resources are scarce. Whether you’re a student, aspiring economist, business professional, policymaker, or curious learner, you’ll develop the tools to analyze real-world economic problems with greater clarity and confidence. Start with the essentials—choice, incentives, scarcity, trade-offs, opportunity cost, and rational decision-making—and build toward more advanced microeconomic analysis. Explore how consumers make choices based on preferences, income, and constraints, and how firms determine production, costs, and profit. Then examine how prices allocate scarce resources, markets respond to change, and public policy can influence economic outcomes. Go beyond the basics with social welfare, strategic interactions, game theory, Nash equilibrium, imperfect information, monopoly, duopoly, cartels, and competition policy. Through practical questions, policy scenarios, and real-world applications, strengthen your economic reasoning, analytical thinking, and decision-making skills. Understand choices. Decode markets. Analyze policy. Think like an economist.

Course objectives

• help students grasp the fundamentals of microeconomics
• enable better decision-making through economic analysis
• contextualize pressing public policy issues using economic frameworks