Course Outline
Course Requirements
Exercise on Corruption
Exercise on Deregulation
Class outline and assignments, 13 October, 2000
A selection of economics news stories. Reading for 20 October, 2000
Class outline and case study development, 3 November, 2000
Exercise on Technology and Innovation, 17 November, 2000
A reading on technology and its effect on development economics.
A list of readings for the course.
Course Outline
Course Requirements
A Simple Graphing Exercise
Quiz and Class Outline--Demand, Supply, Diminishing Returns
Quiz and Class Outline--Equilibrium and Basic Measurements
Quiz and Class Outline--Elasticity, Pure Competition
Quiz and Class Outline--Free Markets and Economic Efficiency
Quiz and Class Outline--Monopolistic Competition, Oligopoly
Quiz and Class Outline--Game Theory, Monopoly
Quiz and Class Outline--Market Inefficiencies, Measuring Consumer Surplus
Quiz and Class Outline--Principle of Comparative Advantage
Quiz and Class Outline--Foreign Trade, Currency Markets
News Articles to accompany Quiz 10
Case Study Assignment
Final Exam
On Kazakhstan's Oil Industry
On TV Advertising in Kazakhstan.
Innovation and Technology: Plastic Power.
Transport Industry in Kazakhstan
Kazakh Oil and Monopoly
Poultry Farming and Monopolistic Competition
Kazakhstan's Soft Drink Industry
Confectionery industry in Kazakhstan
Innovation and technology in Kazakhstan: problems and facts
The State and Perspectives for the Development of Small
High-Tech Companies
Innovation in the Kazakh Mining Industry
Antidumping as Protectionism
Ust-Komenogorsk Hydro Electric Station
Privatization of the UK Furniture Co.
Supply and Demand in Almaty's Fruit Market
The Russian Watch Industry