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Detailed program by chapters.
Part 1. Introduction
Chapter 1. Thinking as an economist (all)
Chapter 2. Supply and Demand (All)
Part 2. Consumer theory.
Chapter 3. Rational consumer choice (all but par. 3.5)
Chapter 4. The utility function (all except par. 4.6.4)
Chapter 5. The applications of rational choice and demand: paragraphs 5.4 and 5.4.1 only.
Part 3. Business theory and market structure.
Chapter 9. Production (all). Appendix to Chapter 9: A.9.1, A.9.2, A.9.2 only
Chapter 10. Costs (all except Section 10.7)
Chapter 11. Perfect competition (all except 11.11.1, 11.12.1, 11.12.2, 11.12.3, 11.14)
Chapter 12. Monopoly (all but paragraph 12.9)

R.H. Frank e E. Cartwright (2021) Microeconomia, VIII edizione. Milano: McGraw-Hill

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”, Dispensa n. 1 (materiale didattico redatto da R. Ciccone, S.M. Fratini e A. Trezzini).
ii) “La teoria classica della distribuzione e dei prezzi relativi”, Dispensa n. 2 (materiale didattico redatto da R. Ciccone, S.M. Fratini e A. Trezzini).
iii) “Teoria marginalista della distribuzione”, Dispensa n. 3 (materiale didattico redatto da S.M. Fratini).
iv) Frank Robert H.; Cartwright Edward; Piras R. Microeconomia. McGraw-Hill Libri Italia, Milano. 2021.
v) “Glossario ed Esercizi Svolti di Microeconomia” (materiale didattico redatto da S.M. Fratini e D. Pignalosa).