Course Information

Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
Introduction To Economics ISL111 1. Semester 3 + 0 3.0 6.0
Prerequisites None
Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Undergraduate
Course Type
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. Oğuz DEMİREL
Instructor(s) Oğuz DEMİREL
Assistants
Goals For the science of economics: consumption of production, economic systems, types of markets, national income, inflation, unemployment and foreign exchange markets to introduce the basic concepts, such as
Course Content Consumer theory, elasticities, production theory, cost theory, national income, IS-LM curves, AS-AD curves
Learning Outcomes - Pure: To analyze the theories of the basic concepts of the economy on the whole of Application: for quantities of economic variables (growth, inflation, etc.) measuring and interpreting
- Application: for quantities of economic variables (growth, inflation, etc.) measuring and interpreting
- Conceptual: Economy and economic policies of the basic concepts used in the literature to understand and interpret
- Cognitive Application: Depending on the company conjuncture of the economy and corporate-based policy development and implementation
- Learning Competency: Access to information and resources for this purpose do research, the ability to use databases and other information resources
- Field-Specific Professional Competence: Professional ethics and responsibility. Perform market analysis, macro-economic policies of the appropriate target and strategy development
Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Learning Methods
1. Week İktisat Kavramı; kıtlık, seçim, sonsuz ihtiyaç, etkinlik, fırsat maliyet, rasyonel davranış kalıbı; Normatif iktisat, pozitif iktisat; İktisatta yöntem; Ekonomik sistemler Verbal Expression Visual Presentation Course Hours
2. Week Fayda, faydanın ölçülebilirliği, kardinalist/ordinalist fayda, marjinal fayda, toplam fayda, bütçe doğrusu, tüketici dengesi ve değişimi, Fiyat Tüketim eğrisi, gelir ve ikame etkileri (Hicks Slutsky yaklaşımı), gelir tüketim eğrisi, engel eğrisi ve engel kanunları, bireysel talep fonksiyonun türetilmesi Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
3. Week Üretim kavramı ve üretim fonksiyonları, çok kısa dönem üretim fonksiyonu, kısa dönem üretim fonksiyonu ve azalan verimler kanunu, uzun dönem üretim fonksiyonu ve ölçeğe göre getiri, eş ürün eğrileri analizi, eş maliyet doğrusu, üretici dengesi ve dengenin değişimi Maliyetler ile ilgili kavramlar: açık maliyet, örtük maliyet; kısa dönem sabit, değişken ve toplam maliyetler, marjinal maliyet Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
4. Week Talep ve talep fonksiyonu, Bireysel ve piyasa talep eğrileri, talebi belirleyen faktörler, talep değişmesi ve talep kayması, talebin fiyat esnekliği, talebin gelir esnekliği, çapraz fiyat esnekliği, Arz ve arz fonksiyonu, arzı belirleyen faktörler, arzın değişmesi ve arzın kayması, arzın fiyat esnekliği, arzın maliyet esnekliği, arzın çapraz fiyat esnekliği Verbal Expression Visual Presentation Course Hours
5. Week Piyasanın tanımı, piyasa türleri, piyasa dengesi (arz-talep eşitliği), kararlı kararsız denge, piyasa dengesinin değişmesi, üretici ve tüketici rantı, piyasanın düzenlenmesi (tavan fiyat, taban fiyat, vergilendirme ve sübvansiyon) Cobbweb teoremi, King Kanunu Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
6. Week Tam rekabet Piyasası; piyasasının temel varsayımları, kısa dönem firma dengesi, uzun dönem firma dengesi, endüstri arz eğrisi ve maliyetler, endüstri arz eğrisinin esnekliği; Monopol Piyasası: Monopolün tanımı ve kaynakları, monopolde kısa dönem firma dengesi, hasılat esneklik fiyat ilişkisi, monopol gücünün ölçülmesi, fiyat farklılaştırması; Monopolcü Rekabet Piyasası Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
7. Week The labor demand curve, marginal revenue product of labor, marginal input costs, labor supply curve of labor market equilibrium, partial equilibrium transition to the overall balance, the overall balance and efficiency, effectiveness, Edgeworth box, consumption activity and the contract curve, the production efficiency and the contract curve the production possibilities curve and conversion rate, simultaneous exchange and production efficiency (pareto optmalitesi); Market Failures Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
8. Week Overview Course Hours Verbal Expression
9. Week Concept of Macro Economics: Macro-economics - micro-economic differences, study areas of macro economics, macro economics methods; Measurement of Gross Domestic Product (GDP): the production approach, expenditure approach, income approach, GDP and related quantities: ReelGSYİH, Gross National Product , Net domestic Product, National Income, Personal Income, Disposable Personal Income, unemployment, Measurement, Measuring inflation (CPI - PPI), Measurement of the growth rate, Okun Law Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
10. Week Classical Macro-economic approach: the basic assumptions of classical economics, Product, the savings-investment identity, Classical interest rate theory; Total planned expenditure: consumption function, saving function, investment function, Public Expenditure, expenditure equation: the goods market, equilibrium formation and change, Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
11. Week Definition of Money, functions and monetary systems, Classical money demand: Quantity Theory (Yale-Fisher Approach, Cambridge Approach), Keynes's theory of the demand for money: Liquidity Preference Theory, Baumol-Tobin model of money demand, Tobin model of money demand risk, Modern Quantity Theory of money Supply: banks create money (deposit money), Money multiplier, the determinants of the money supply, monetary policy and tools Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
12. Week Multiplier Mechanism: The investment multiplier, multiplier transfer expenditures, tax multiplier, government spending multiplier, net foreign trade multiplier; inflationary Deflasyonist open and fiscal policy; Goods and Money Markets interaction; Derivation of the IS Curve, Launching the slope and location; Money Supply and Demand money market equilibrium Visual Presentation Course Hours Verbal Expression
13. Week Inflation and inflation causes effects on inflation, monetary and fiscal policies; Adaptive Anti-inflationary policies under the assumption that expectations and Rational Expectations; Cost of Inflation, Unemployment and Employment Concepts, Types of Unemployment, Unemployment and Inflation Relationship, Phillips Curve, Short and Long-run Phillips Curve Course Hours Verbal Expression Visual Presentation
14. Week Aggregate Demand curve: curve derivation (Keynesian approach, Pigou approach), the slope and location; Monetary and Fiscal Policies simultaneous effects, the budget deficit concepts, supply-side economics and budget deficits, financing of the budget deficit, budget deficit, seigniorage and inflation Verbal Expression Visual Presentation Course Hours
Recommended Sources
ÜNSAL Erdal (2007), “Introduction to Economics", Image publisher, Ankara, 2007
Relations with Education Attainment Program Course Competencies
Program Requirements Contribution Level DK1 DK2 DK3 DK4 DK5 DK6 Measurement Method
PY1 5 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY2 4 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY3 4 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY4 5 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY5 4 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY6 5 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY7 5 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY8 4 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY9 4 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY10 2 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY11 4 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY12 4 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
PY13 4 2 2 3 3 4 5 40,60
*DK = Course's Contrubution.
0 1 2 3 4 5
Course's Level of contribution None Very Low Low Fair High Very High
Method of assessment/evaluation Written exam Oral Exams Assignment/Project Laboratory work Presentation/Seminar
ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm 1 1 1 1
Midterm 2 1 1 1
Homework 1 1 50 50
Homework 2 1 30 30
Final 1 30 30
Classroom Activities 1 41 41
Total Workload 153
ECTS Credit of the Course 6.0