Università Roma Tre

1. Production and prices: general elements
The production process. Production methods and their representation. The social production process. Economy of mere subsistence. Economy producung surplus. Basic and non-basic goods.

2. Fundamentals of the classical theory of distribution and relative prices
The real wage and other circumstances taken as given in the 'core' of the theory. The concept of social surplus. Profits and general profit rate. Distinction and relationship between "normal" and "market" prices. Price equations: simultaneous determination of profit rate and relative prices. Importance and limits of the solutions to the problem attempted by Ricardo and Marx. The inverse wage-profit relationship. The theory of rent.

3. Fundamentals of the marginalist theory of distribution and relative prices
The data of the theory. Consumer theory. Functions of consumption good demand. Production theory. Direct and indirect substitutability as analytical bases for factor demand functions. Determination of distribution and relative prices in terms of supply and demand equilibria. Comparison with the classical theory of distribution. Implications of general economic equilibrium: full employment of available resources; Pareto optimality; efficiency in exchange; efficiency in production; efficiency in the combination of outputs. The notion of capital as a single productive factor and the difficulties that derive from it (mention).

4. Analysis of the single industry and market forms
The analysis of "partial" equilibrium. Short and long term cost curves of the individual enterprise. Equilibrium of enterprise and industry under competitive conditions, in the short and long period. Quantity produced and price, in the short and long period, in monopoly and monopolistic competition. The oligopoly: Cournot model.

"Elementi di teoria della produzione", Appunti per il corso di Microeconomia - Dispensa n.1
"La teoria classica della distribuzione e dei prezzi relativi", Appunti per il corso di Microeconomia - Dispensa n.2
"La teoria marginalista della distribuzione e dei prezzi relativi", Appunti per il corso di Microeconomia - Dispensa n.3
Materials (audio slides) distributed by the teacher

With regard to the other text adopted, the chapters and paragraphs included in the programme are set out below, with reference to the latest edition (2017).

Robert H. Frank e Edward Cartwright, Microeconomia
Milano: McGraw-Hill, VII edizione, 2017
Capitoli e paragrafi in programma:

Capitolo 3, La scelta razionale del consumatore, p. 51
{paragrafi: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4; Appendice 3}

Capitolo 4, La domanda individuale e la domanda di mercato, p. 93
{paragrafi: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7}

Capitolo 5, Le applicazioni delle teorie della scelta razionale e della domanda, p. 137
{limitatamente a: paragrafo 5.7; Appendice 5}

Capitolo 9, La produzione, p. 267
{intero capitolo, inclusa Appendice 9}

Capitolo 10, I costi, p. 297
{intero capitolo, esclusa Appendice 10}

Capitolo 11, La concorrenza perfetta, p. 333
{paragrafi: 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.6, 11.7, 11.9, 11.12, 11.13}

Capitolo 12, Il monopolio, p. 377
{paragrafi: 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.8}

Capitolo 13, Concorrenza imperfetta: un approccio basato sulla teoria dei giochi, p. 427
{paragrafi: 13.1, 13.2, 13.4 limitatamente al sotto-paragrafo 13.4.1}

Capitolo 15, L'equilibrio generale e l'efficienza dei mercati, p. 523
{paragrafi: 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 15.6,15.7