PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS

 

MPA Thao Pham

 

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I. COURSE MATERIALS

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

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

3. Core economics: https://www.core-econ.org/

4. ​Đề cương Kinh tế vi mô

 

II. ASSESSMENT

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• Attendance: 5%

• Presentation: 5% 

  • ​Registration: 

  • ​​Marking 

  • ​Group participation

• Midterm Exam: 30%

• Final Exam: 60% 

 

III. READING LIST: 

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1.Week 1: Giới thiệu chung

• Chapter 1  

• 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
  • ​Why you should get married
  • ​Happiness: A revolution in economics (2008)
  • ​Opportunities cost of car owning
  • ​To choose and to be chosen
  • ​The Philosophy of Economics
  • ​​Psychology & Economics
  • ​​Different market system (blog)

• Movies: 

  • ​​Who was Karl Marx?

  • Bulkland (2017)

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

 

2. Week 2,3: Cung cầu

• Chapter 2

• Presentation Group 1 (for Chapter 1)​​

• ​Clips: 

  • What causes economic bubbles? 

  • ​Summary of Rockonomics

  • ​​Sin tax​

  • ​​McDonald in Vietnam fail?

• ​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 4,5 : Hệ số co giãn

• Chapter 3 & Revision

• ​Presentation Group 2 (for Chapter 2)​

• 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 6,7 : Lý thuyết hành vi người tiêu dùng

• Chapter 6

• ​Presentation Group 3 (for Chapter 3)​

• ​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

  • Happiness: A revolution in economics (2008)

•  ​Clips: 

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

  • The Century of the Self

 

5. Week 8 - Giữa kỳ đối với lớp KTE201.11

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

• Chapter 7

• ​Presentation:

  • Group 4: Chủ đề tự chọn (film sách về kinh tế theo gợi ý của giáo viên)

  • Group 5 (for Chapter 6)

• Extra reading: 

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

  • ​The economics of marriage

• ​​Movies: 

  • ​​Who was Karl Marx?

  • ​​Charlie Chaplin - Factory times

  • ​Taxonomity of Moats​

  • ​​The Founder (2016)

   

 7. Week 11,12,13: Cấu trúc thị trường

• Chapter 8

• ​​Presentation:

  • Group 6 for Chapter 7 

  • Group 7 for Chapter 8 (Monopoly)

• Movies: 

  • ​A beautiful mind (2001)

  • Pump (2014) 

  • The Informant! (2009)

  • Diamond Empire (1994)

• 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

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8. Week 13: Thị trường lao động

• Chapter 9

• Presentation:

  • ​Group 8 (for Chapter 8)

• ​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 15: Thất bại thị trường

• Chapter 10

• ​Presentation 

  • Group 9 (for Chapter 9)​

  • Group 10: Chapter 10 hoặc chủ đề tự chọn theo gợi ý của giáo viên

• ​Extra Reading: 

  • ​The Coase Theorem

  • ​Tragedy of commons

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

  • The Economics of a Soda Tax

  • Online dating

• Movies:

  • ​​Prisons for Profit 

  • ​Food, Inc.

• ​​Clips: 

  • The Economics of Dating, Job Hunting, and More