Information Package / Course Catalogue
Introduction to Economics
Course Code: MUH001
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

Understanding the equilibrium conditions relating to individual economic units and the economy as a whole, comprehending the economic process, explaining the causes and consequences of international trade relations, and examining the dynamics of the economic growth process.

Course Content

Basic Concepts in Microeconomics: needs, goods and services, consumption, production, factors of production, and economic units. Price Theory: Supply and demand. Consumer Theory: Indifference curves, budget line, marginal rate of substitution, consumer equilibrium, and changes in consumer equilibrium. Producer Theory: Iso-product curves, iso-cost line, marginal technical rate of substitution, producer equilibrium, and changes in producer equilibrium. Firm equilibrium in perfectly competitive and imperfectly competitive markets.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.They can explain how the price of any good or service is determined and why that price changes.
2.It can explain the flow of basic goods, services, and funds in the economy.
3.This can provide explanatory information about economics being the science of choices, in light of rational choices.
4.Price theory can also be explained graphically, illustrating how prices change under different supply and demand conditions.
5.They can make a statement about market equilibrium.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Eğilmez, Mahfi. Easy Economics with Examples, Remzi Kitabevi, Ankara, 2012.
2.Eğilmez, Mahfi. Türkiye in the Process of Change: A Socio-Economic Assessment from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic, Remzi Kitabevi, Ankara, 2018.
3.Kalaycıoğlu, Ersin and Ali Yaşar Sarıbay. Political Change and Modernization in Turkey, Dora Publishing, Bursa, 2009.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
What is the definition and characteristics of economics, its sub-disciplines, and what is an economic problem?
Week 2 - Theoretical
Needs, Goods, Factors of Production, Opportunity Cost, Externalities, Consumer and Producer Surplus, Consumption, Decision Units in Economics
Week 3 - Theoretical
Supply, Demand, Market Equilibrium, Deviations from Market Equilibrium, Supply/Demand Applications
Week 4 - Theoretical
Demand Elasticity, Income Elasticity of Demand, Supply Elasticity, Other Elasticities
Week 5 - Theoretical
The Paradox of Abundance, The Cobweb Theory, Government Intervention in Agricultural Product Prices, Flexibility and Wage Applications
Week 6 - Theoretical
Utility and Diminishing Marginal Utility Theory, Consumer Equilibrium, and Applications
Week 7 - Theoretical
Utility and Diminishing Marginal Utility Theory, Consumer Equilibrium, and Applications
Week 8 - Theoretical
Utility and the Theory of Diminishing Marginal Utility, Consumer Equilibrium, and its Applications.
Week 9 - Theoretical
Labor and Wages, Land and Rent, Capital and Interest, Enterprise and Profit
Week 10 - Theoretical
Production Function, Law of Diminishing Returns, Production Equilibrium, Cost Analysis
Week 11 - Theoretical
Firm Equilibrium in a Perfectly Competitive Market
Week 12 - Theoretical
Firm Equilibrium in a Monopoly Market
Week 13 - Theoretical
Monopolistic Competition Market, Oligopoly Market, Comparison of Markets
Week 14 - Theoretical
Factor Demand, Factor Supply, Factor Incomes
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Presentation1%5
Term Assignment1%5
Midterm Examination1%30
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory142256
Term Project1448
Presentation 1257
Midterm Examination18816
Final Examination18513
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)100
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
OÇ-1
4
2
2
3
OÇ-2
1
3
2
3
OÇ-3
4
2
1
2
OÇ-4
3
OÇ-5
4
2
3
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026