本課程內容將介紹經濟行為、問題與決策制定之分析方法。主要內容將分為個體經濟學與總體經濟學。其中，個體經濟學以消費者、廠商及商品市場作為研究對象，包括消費者如何進行消費選擇、生產者如何進行生產決策、進而分析市場均衡與結構。除了市場機制，政府是否可能干預市場，或是進行公共選擇與所得分配等，皆是個體經濟學之重要議題。在總體經濟學之部分，本課程將提供分析總體經濟問題與政策的基本架構，來檢視國民所得與其相關的經濟活動，例如國民所得衡量、就業與通貨膨脹、國民儲蓄與投資、貨幣與財政政策等議題。

This course content will introduce the analysis methods of economic behavior, problems and decision-making. The main content will be divided into individual economics and overall economics. Among them, individual economics takes consumers, manufacturers and commodity markets as the research objects, including how consumers make consumption choices, how producers make production decisions, and then analyzes market equilibrium and structure. In addition to market mechanisms, whether the government may intervene in the market or conduct public choices and income distribution are all important issues in individual economics. In the part of general economics, this course will provide a basic framework for analyzing general economic issues and policies to examine national income and related economic activities, such as national income measurement, employment and inflation, national savings and investment, monetary and fiscal policy and other issues.

經濟學是研究如何把稀少性資源，做最有效率配置的一門學問，旨在探討人們在有限的資源下如何做選擇？以及人們所選擇的活動，會造成什麼樣的結果？因此，經濟學也可說是一門研究選擇的科學。本課程介紹基本經濟學概念及分析工具，用來研究如何把有限資源配置到各個彼此互斥的用途上，以期對經濟活動（行為） 有深入的瞭解，課程內容涵蓋個體經濟學及總體經濟學。個體經濟內容包括: 經濟學與經濟課題、市場如何運作、家戶選擇行為之探討、廠商選擇行為與市場結構、市場失靈與政府角色、訊息不對稱等。總體經濟內容包括: 總體經濟探討議題、國民所得的意義與衡量、物價膨脹與失業、貨幣與金融市場、總合供需分析、財政政策與貨幣政策、國際貿易與金融等。

Economics is a discipline that studies how to allocate scarce resources in the most efficient manner. It aims to explore how people make choices with limited resources. And what are the consequences of the activities people choose? Therefore, economics can also be said to be a science that studies choices. This course introduces basic economic concepts and analytical tools, which are used to study how to allocate limited resources to mutually exclusive uses, in order to gain an in-depth understanding of economic activities (behavior). The course content covers individual economics and overall economics. Individual economic content includes: economics and economic topics, how the market operates, discussion of household choice behavior, manufacturer choice behavior and market structure, market failure and government role, information asymmetry, etc. General economic content includes: general economic discussion issues, the meaning and measurement of national income, price inflation and unemployment, currency and financial markets, aggregate supply and demand analysis, fiscal policy and monetary policy, international trade and finance, etc.

Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, John A. List, Economics, Global Edition, Second Edition

Daron Acemoglu, David Laibson, John A. List, Economics, Global Edition, Second Edition