LE
Another fine course from Professor Stein. I particularly appreciated the final set of lectures, but all were well presented, understandable, and relevant.

Perfect markets achieve efficiency: maximizing total surplus generated. But real markets are imperfect. In this course we will explore a set of market imperfections to understand why they fail and to explore possible remedies including as antitrust policy, regulation, government intervention. Examples are taken from everyday life, from goods and services that we all purchase and use. We will apply the theory to current events and policy debates through weekly exercises. These will empower you to be an educated, critical thinker who can understand, analyze and evaluate market outcomes.

LE
Another fine course from Professor Stein. I particularly appreciated the final set of lectures, but all were well presented, understandable, and relevant.
AL
Excellent coverage of market failures, including monopoly, externalities, adverse selection, and moral hazard.
BD
Excellent course by Prof. Stein. One of the best, I have seen. Thanks for such a brilliant course.
AN
A great comtinuation of the principles of microeconomics. These two courses are so far my favorite on coursera! I wish the professor made more courses about microeconomics!
DV
Love how the videos were brief, but informative. Very helpful class and exams weren't overly complicated. In the end, I felt as though I retained much of the knowledge.
PD
Very helpful and informative class.... liked the challenge of getting my microeconomics view back in order...
HT
The course is best for those who are beginners to Microeconomics. I had no idea of Microeconomics. This course has given me confidence to start my journey to start learning more. Thanks
VK
An outstanding course. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand why the Invisible Hand is not enough to tackle market failures. Professor Stein is a gem.
AS
Learnt so much from this course has helped me reinforce some ideas I had already from microeconomics.
VR
I came here for the videos! Extremely concise and accurate. Very good for reviewing material. I speak from the level of an HL Economics student in the IB.
NP
I really appreciated the short form videos and abundant visual examples. I would take MANY more classes on Coursera if it were guaranteed that they would follow this format.
JD
lectures are engaging, quizes are helpful means to study for the credit course I am taking from another university.
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Love how the videos were brief, but informative. Very helpful class and exams weren't overly complicated. In the end, I felt as though I retained much of the knowledge.
Great course. The instructor is obviously knowledgeable and presents the information in multiple formats for learners. Not a true introductory course if you're unfamiliar with economic terms, and some of the quizzes tested on material that wasn't fully explained. Overall, it was a great learning experience and pushed me out of my academic comfort zone.
I really appreciated the short form videos and abundant visual examples. I would take MANY more classes on Coursera if it were guaranteed that they would follow this format.
In the beginning, it started to clear out my basics. As we got closer to the end of the course, it related the theoretical knowledge gained to the practical scenario.
Another fine course from Professor Stein. I particularly appreciated the final set of lectures, but all were well presented, understandable, and relevant.
The course requires some fundamental knowledge of economics as video lectures are quite short, and the quizzes actually test your understanding of the topics (applied learning), requiring a bit of outside reading not provided through the course.
This Economics course is succinct and understandable and it backs up the theory with clearly explained graphical illustrations. The use of simple mathematical equations to back up the graphical assumptions clarified my doubts and the explanations provided were comprehensive. The last few weeks tended to give easy-to- follow examples related to America. I feel like the course is geared more towards those who have at least basic understanding of Economics as otherwise the diagrams may seem confusing at first.
Good things : simple and clear. good for beginners. Things that can be improved : club some of the topics together. 1 min video with 20 sec intervals of music and other non essential stuff needs to be removed. it may be useful to provide explanation of answers to quizzes after 3 attempts. people are going to get the right answers by hit and trial anyways (since there is unlimited number of attempts)
Excellent Introductory Microeconomics course. Its covering of the foundational concepts of when markets fails presented a comprehensive review of the foundational concepts of the subject. I have studied economics at the undergraduate and graduate level, and this course has taught me things I never covered in my university level courses. Outstanding introductory course.
Rebecca Stein is an excellent instructor to guide you through the material -- after taking this course and part of her other one on Coursera I feel like I know her. She can be quite funny and her explanations/illustrations go a long way in building onto the key concepts of the course. The quizzes can be quite difficult, so I would recommend that any person take notes.
I think this course is important because it covers a topic that is not often talked about – market failures. It is important to understand why markets sometimes fail in order to be able to create policies that can correct these failures. The course does a good job of explaining the different types of market failures and how they can be corrected.
This is a great course for economists in general but specially for graduated students. The course showers the fundamental of microeconomics. In this regard i would suggest this course to all graduate students enrolled in an economic degree.
I want to thank Rebecca Stein for providing such a clear and understandable lecture.
It is all wonderful experience with Prof. Rebecca Stein on this course. I enjoyed it both the content and the well structure pattern by which she thought the course. it is an added experience as an economist and I valued her inclusive teaching. thanks to the provider (Coursera).
But I'm still waiting for my certificate.
As a Biology graduate looking to go into finance, I found this course extremely accessible. It teaches the basic theories of microeconomics using plenty of examples to relate the theory to real world economics. Would highly recommend if you are looking for a short and easy way to learn simple concepts.
I would recommend anybody this course who want to learn microeconomics fundamental from beginning level . Quiz arrangement is also rewarding for students to apply learnt knowledge. The professor of this course is awesome with very calm nature towards explaining each and every topic in more detail way.
The importance of Economics in making sound policies and enforcing development and closing the inequality gap in the society made this course very essential.
The interactive group discussions and very detailed video sessions also helps to ensure easy learning of the essentials
it is very important course and it benefits a lot to understand microeconomics , managerial economics, and relates economics with welfare and happiness economics. in the way the instructor teaches is very inspiring.
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I loved this course for its clear explanation of microeconomic principles and how and when they fail. The course teaches how to apply the principles to real world examples and thus gives important applied knowledge with real world examples.
I have really enjoyed this course because I felt that I was finding out some important things to understand a social system. The lectures were also very understandable even I had no basis on Economics. I very appreciate these worth
Market failure is one of the most important discussions in public economics. Although we reviewed the microeconomics in this term, we learned the tangible connection between these two fields. It was very helpfull and thank you...