"I would add one word for any student beginning economic study who may be discouraged by the severity of the effort which the study ... seems to require. The complicated analyses which economists endeavor to carry through are not mere gymnastics. They are instruments for the bettering of human life. The misery and squalor that surround us, the injurious luxury of some wealthy families, the terrible uncertainty overshadowing many families of the poor--these are evils too plain to be ignored. By the knowledge that our science seeks it is possible that [these evils] may be restrained ... To search for [that knowledge] is the task, to find it perhaps the prize, which the 'dismal science of Political Economy' offers to those who face its discipline."

--Arthur C. Pigou, Welfare Economics (1928)

"Intuition and rigor are both important."

--Halbert White (ca 1980)

Part 1: Mathematical tools

• Chapter 1: Review of basic calculus, notes and problems.
• Chapter 2: Introduction to multivariate calculus, notes and problems.

Part 2: Consumers and demand

• Chapter 3: Preferences and utility, notes and problems.
• Chapter 4: Budgets and choice, notes and problems.
• Chapter 5: Demand functions, notes and problems.
• Chapter 6: Demand elasticities, problems only.
• Chapter 7: Substitution and income effects, notes and problems.
• Chapter 8: Measuring consumer welfare, notes and problems.

Part 3: Firms and competition

• Chapter 9: Production, problems only.
• Chapter 10: Cost, problems only.
• Chapter 11: Profit maximization and supply, problems only.
• Chapter 12: Welfare analysis, problems only.

Part 4: General equilibrium and market power

• Chapter 13: General equilibrium, problems only.
• Chapter 14: Monopoly, problems only.
• Chapter 15: Imperfect competition, problems only.
• Chapter 16: Game theory, problems only.

Part 5: Further topics

• Chapter 17: Externalities and public goods, problems only.
• Chapter 18: Uncertainty and information, problems only.
• Chapter 19: Input markets, problems only.
• Chapter 20: Labor supply, problems only.

Fall 2024

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and Demand version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 3: Firms and competition version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 4: General equilibrium and market power version A, version B, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, answer key.

Fall 2023

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and Demand version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 3: Firms and competition version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 4: General equilibrium and market power version A, version B, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, answer key.

Fall 2022

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and demand version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 3: Firms and competition version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 4: General equilibrium and market power version A, version B, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, answer key.

Fall 2021

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and demand version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 3: Firms and competition version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 4: General equilibrium and market power version A, version B, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, answer key.

Fall 2019

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and demand version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 3: Firms and competition version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 4: General equilibrium and market power version A, version B, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, answer key.

Fall 2018

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and demand version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 3: Firms and competition version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 4: General equilibrium and market power version A, version B, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, answer key.

Fall 2017

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and demand version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 3: Firms and competition version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 4: General equilibrium and market power version A, version B, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, answer key.

Fall 2016

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, version C, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and demand version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 3: Firms and competition version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 4: General equilibrium and market power version A, version B, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, answer key.

Fall 2015

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, version C, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and demand version A, version B, version C, answer key.
• Exam 3: Firms and competition version A, version B, version C, answer key.
• Exam 4: General equilibrium and market power version A, version B, version C, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, version C, answer key.

Fall 2014

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and demand version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 3 "Producers and Competition" version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 4: General equilibrium and market power version A, version B, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, answer key.

Fall 2013

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and demand version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 3: Firms and competition version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 4: General equilibrium and market power version A, version B, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, answer key.

Fall 2012

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and demand version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 3 Firms and Competition version A, version B, answer key.
• Exam 4 General Equilibrium and Market Power version A, version B, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, answer key.

Fall 2011

• Exam 1: Mathematical tools version A, version B, version C, answer key.
• Exam 2: Consumers and demand version A, version B, version C, answer key.
• Exam 3 Firms and Competition version A, version B, version C, answer key.
• Exam 4 General Equilibrium and Market Power version A, version B, version C, answer key.
• Final exam version A, version B, version C, answer key.