Università Roma Tre

Elements of the theory of production
- inputs, outputs and production methods
- the subsistence economy
- the economy with a surplus
The surplus approach to commodity value and income distribution
- the relevance of social and institutional elements to income distribution
- the explanation of the real wage rate
- the "core" of the classical approach
- the link between profit rate and relative prices
- the price equations
- the classical theory of rent
The theory of consumer choice
- budget set and budget constraint
- preferences
- consumer choice
- consumer-good demand curves
The theory of firm choice
- the function of production
- profit maximisation
- isoquants and isocosts
- the output expansion path and long-term cost curves
Production factors and the marginalist explanation of income distribution
- marginal and average productivity of factors
- the demand curves of factors of production
- equilibrium between supply and demand for factors of production
Market forms
- perfect competition
- monopoly
- Cournot oligopoly
- Stackelberg oligopoly
Introduction to the welfare economics
- allocations and Edgeworth box
- Pareto improvements and Pareto optima
- first theorem of welfare economics

i) "Elementi di teoria della produzione", Appunti per il corso di Microeconomia - Dispensa n. 1 (teaching material written by R. Ciccone, S.M. Fratini e A. Trezzini).
ii) "La teoria classica della distribuzione e dei prezzi relativi", Appunti per il corso di Microeconomia - Dispensa n. 2 (teaching material written by R. Ciccone, S.M. Fratini e A. Trezzini).
iii) "La teoria marginalista della distribuzione e dei prezzi relativi", Appunti per il corso di Microeconomia - Dispensa n. 3 (teaching material written by R. Ciccone, S.M. Fratini e A. Trezzini).
iv) R.H. Frank, Microeconomia. McGraw-Hill Libri Italia, Milano.
v) "Glossario ed Esercizi Svolti di Microeconomia" (teaching material written by S.M. Fratini e D. Pignalosa).