​KINH TẾ HỌC VI MÔ CƠ BẢN

(update 8/2022)

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I. COURSE MATERIALS​

• “Kinh tế học Vi mô”, 2016, TS Nguyễn Thị Tường Anh chủ biên, NXB Lao động

• “Câu hỏi và bài tập Kinh tế học Vi mô”, 2018, PGS, TS Nguyễn Thị Tường Anh, NXB Lao động

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II. ASSESSMENT

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• Attendance: 10%

• 02 midterm Exams: 15% each

• Final Exam: 60% 

 

III. READING LIST: 

0.Week 0: Prerequisite Readings 

• My teaching philosophy: CLICK HERE

• How to study

  • ​My post on how to make it stick: CLICK HERE

  • ​How Youtubers study for exam: CLICK HERE or HERE

  • How ex FTU study for exame: CLICK HERE

• ​Presentation sample: CLICK HERE​

• Important forms

1. ​Introduce yourself

2. Group registration spreadsheet

3. Report on lazy group member(s)

4. Grade other group presentations​

5. Question about your grade

1.Week 1: Giới thiệu chung

• Chapter 1

• ​Handout

• Clips:

  • ​Why studying economics?

  • ​Opportunity cost in Pretty Woman

  • ​Netlfix & Data

• ​Extra Readings: ​​

  • ​Hiểu và phản biện: Phiên bản quốc dân
  • Charlie Munger: Academic Economics — Strengths and Weaknesses, after Considering Interdisciplinary Needs
  • Regression, Fire, and Dangerous Things (1/3)
  • ​Opportunities cost of car owning
  • ​The Philosophy of Economics
  • ​​Psychology & Economics
  • ​​Difference between Fascism vs. Communism
  • Guns or Butter, Cannabis or Wine, and Other Choices
  • How Only Being Able to Use Logic to Make Decisions Destroyed a Man’s Life

• ​My writings: 

  • ​​Why you should get married

  • ​Happiness: A revolution in economics (2008)

  • My Tedx talk 

  • ​What is the most free economy?

  • ​To choose and to be chosen

• Movies: 

  • ​​Who was Karl Marx?

  • Bulkland (2017)

  • This country isn't just carbon neutral — it's carbon negative

 

2. Week 2,3,4: Cung và Cầu

• Chapter 2

• ​Handout

• ​Clips: 

  • What causes economic bubbles? 

  • ​Summary of Rockonomics

  • ​​Sin tax​

  • ​​McDonald in Vietnam fail?

  • From the Labs: Winning the Netflix Prize

  • ​Oddly Normal's Ba cọc ba đồng

• ​Extra Readings: ​

  • ​Foodstamps

  • Starbucks, monetary superpower

• Movies

  • ​The Big Short (2015)

  • The Sugar Coated documentary (2015)

  • ​Big Sugar 

  • Food makes that make billions 

  • ​​The Great Hacker (2019)

  • ​​Explained: Diamond (2019)

  • ​Charles and chocolate factory (2005)

 

3. Week 5,6 : Hệ số co giãn

• Chapter 3 

• Movies

  • The True cost (2015)

  • ​Wal-Mart: The hight cost of low price (2005)

  • ​​Pump (2014)

• Clips:

  • ​ Examining the so-called 'Pink Tax' in drugstore essentials l GMA  (Good Morning America - Youtube)

   

4. Week 7,8 : Lý thuyết hành vi người tiêu dùng

• Chapter 6

• ​Extra readings:

  • Nudge : Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness, 2018, Richard Thaler, Cass Sunstein

  • Đến Stabucks mua Cà phê cốc lớn (Yoshimoto Yoshio)

  • ​Happyism

  • Increasing prices in Covid-19? Chanel, Louis Vuitton show it works

  • Happiness: A revolution in economics (2008)

•  ​Clips: 

  • The IKEA Effect, by Dan Ariely (Introduction to Economics Behavior)

  • The Century of the Self

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6. Week 9, 10: Lý thuyết người sản xuất

• Chapter 7

• Extra reading: 

  • Đến Starbucks mua Cà phê cốc lớn (Yoshimoto Yoshio)

  • ​The economics of marriage

  • Small is beautiful … but Schumacher's economics of scale runs deeper

• ​​Movies: 

  • ​​Who was Karl Marx?

  • ​​Charlie Chaplin - Factory times

  • ​Taxonomity of Moats​

  • ​​The Founder (2016)

  • ​The Globalization Triology 

 6. Week 11: Midterm exam

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 7. Week 12,13,14: Cấu trúc thị trường

• Chapter 8

• Movies: 

  • ​A beautiful mind (2001)

  • Pump (2014) 

  • The Informant! (2009)

  • Diamond Empire (1994)

  • Pepsi, Where's My Jet? (2022)

• Extra reading:

  • Chương 4 - Đến Stabucks mua Cà phê cốc lớn (Yoshimoto Yoshio)

  • Airbnb case in Vietnam

  • Rare earth elements (REEs)

  • ​Tại sao giá điện phải tăng

• Clip:

  • Why Engagement Rings Are a Scam - Adam Ruins Everything

  • ​Drug Pricing

  • ​​Nash on dating

  • ​​The Simpson Bill Gates

  • ​​Microsoft trial on Monopoly on Netscape

  • Why this Gucci knockoff is totally legal

8. Week 15a: Thị trường lao động 

• Chapter 9

• Clip:

  • ​Will Automation Take Away All of Our Jobs?

  • ​​How to fix gig economy?

• Movies: 

  • ​​Wage Crisis?

  • ​The cost of a Coke (2009) 

• ​Reading: 

  • Jọb Market Signaling 

  • ​​Uber and Lyft to treat driver as employees

9. Week 15b:  Thất bại thị trường​​

• Chapter 10

• Extra Reading: 

  • The Coase Theorem

  • Tragedy of commons

  • ​Vấn đề "chanh" trong kinh tế là gì?

  • The Economics of a Soda Tax

  • Online dating

  • Will You Stop That Infernal Racket!?!

  • What Should Policy Makers Know When Economists Say 'Market' Failure?

• Movies:

  • ​​Prisons for Profit 

  • ​Food, Inc.

• Clips: 

  • The Economics of Dating, Job Hunting, and More

  • Used Car Talk