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About the Course

All goods and services are subject to scarcity at some level, which requires that society develop some allocation mechanism to determine who gets what. Over recorded history, these allocation rules were usually command based, meaning that the king or the emperor would decide. In contemporary times, most countries have turned to market-based allocation systems. In markets, prices act as rationing devices, encouraging or discouraging production and encouraging or discouraging consumption to find an equilibrium allocation of resources. To understand this process, businesses construct demand curves to capture consumer behavior and consider supply curves to capture producer behavior. The resulting equilibrium price “rations” the scarce commodity. You will be able to: • Describe consumer behavior as captured by the demand curve and producer behavior as captured by the supply curve • Define equilibrium and explain the impact of taxes and price controls on market equilibrium • Explain elasticity of demand • Describe cost theory and how firms optimize given the constraints of their own costs and an exogenously given price This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/....

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Oct 2, 2022

T​his is a very powrefull course about Economics, Consumer and Producer. Everyone must go through this course and its not that much easy as much people may guess about this.T​hanks

SN

Feb 3, 2019

Absolutely made me understand firm level economics concepts. Good practice and foundation building.Professor is great and engages will with real life examples and connections.

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Sep 24, 2020

Such a good platform to to learn more . Thank you for your teaching.

By ADVAIDH S N

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Apr 26, 2025

Very resourceful. Helps you grasp the basic concepts of economics.

By HAWK R

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May 11, 2020

Good course. Imperative to take notes and review transcript.

By adwoa a

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Apr 23, 2021

It was a tough course but worth studying. Thanks Coursera

By Ed V

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Feb 17, 2020

module 4 needs a little bit more work for extra clarity.

By SAILI S S

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Sep 23, 2023

It was an overall great learning experience.

By Ali G

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Nov 17, 2020

I like the way Dr. Larry teach this class

By Roy W

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Sep 9, 2019

Need more video examples of problems.

By Faig K

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Jan 28, 2018

There a lot of graphs on this course.

By Bob H

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Mar 9, 2017

Really liked the peer review process.

By ricardo p o

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Apr 4, 2017

great course, clear and dinamic.

By U16CE007 T S

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Dec 3, 2020

Prof. Larry DeBrock was amazing

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Aug 24, 2020

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By NAKHEEB S M

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Sep 22, 2023

Good to learn something new

By Jun Z

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Mar 2, 2017

A useful elementary course.

By SARMAD H

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Nov 24, 2020

very informative course

By bisma i

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May 28, 2019

Good experience of mine

By Đại N Q

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Oct 23, 2020

very practical lesson.

By Clare P

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May 22, 2016

It is well organized.

By Keron S W

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Oct 14, 2020

Thank for knowledge

By Fedor G

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Mar 14, 2016

Really good course!

By POOJA V L

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Oct 9, 2020

Good to learn more

By Kayphet I

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Apr 5, 2021

Wonderful course!

By Harshida K

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May 14, 2020

Good course ever.

By ANURAG T

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Apr 17, 2021

Happy learning