(Oxford) Diploma: Microeconomics and Business (ACCREDITED)

What are you most looking for in a course about Business and (Micro) Economics?

1. Economics ! (Of course!)

2. Especially microeconomics ! (Obviously...)

3. Regularly updated lectures on Business and Microeconomics

4. Many examples of Microeconomics etc.

5. Active participation in Q/A discussing topics in the course

6. Case Studies

7. High level of Instructor involvement (preferably from an Instructor who has taught Microeconomics and Business at different levels, in real life and for many years!)

8. Regular Educational Announcements

9. Variety in lectures

10. Application of Microeconomics principles

11. Suggestions/links to further reading/watching

12. On completion of the course, free access to any one other course (not necessarily in Microeconomics either!)

This course in Microeconomics and Business has all of the above.

Update:

1. Trade balance (goods vs services)

2. Current account vs bilateral deficit narratives

3. Gains from trade and interdependence

4. Tariffs: incidence, pass-through, deadweight loss

5. Retaliation and trade war dynamics

6. Elasticity of demand/supply; substitution effects

7. Trade diversion and third-country substitution

8. Exchange rates and competitiveness

9. Inflation transmission from trade policy

10. Policy uncertainty and investment effects

11. Climate externalities and market failure

12. Physical climate risk vs transition risk

13. Climate risk pricing and risk premia

14. Cost of capital and sovereign borrowing spreads

15. Insurance market withdrawal / uninsurability

16. Risk pooling limits and correlated shocks

17. Regulation/standards as risk reduction

18. Adaptation investment and resilience finance

19. Energy market design (energy-only vs capacity)

20. Reliability as a system constraint

21. Capacity adequacy and reserve margins

22. Dispatchable generation and flexibility

23. Grid transmission/distribution bottlenecks

24. Storage economics and demand response

25. Peak demand, load growth, load duration curves

26. Option value of reliability resources

27. AI/data-centre electricity demand as a driver

28. General-purpose technologies (GPTs) and diffusion

29. Complementary investments (skills, data, processes)

30. Adoption S-curves and productivity lags

31. Measurement/realization of productivity gains

32. Capital deepening vs TFP growth

33. Automation vs augmentation (substitutes vs complements)

34. Skill-biased technological change

35. Job polarization and entry-level displacement

36. Bargaining power (labour vs capital)

37. Labour share vs capital share of income

38. Competition policy and rent concentration

39. “Jobless growth”

40. Social legitimacy (“social permission”) of technology

41. Welfare states, safety nets, and adjustment costs

42. Education and reskilling policy

43. Economic statecraft and coercive diplomacy

44. Credible threats, deterrence, commitment problems

45. Signalling, reputation, and strategic interaction

46. Sanctions/retaliation risk and market reactions

47. Structured finance and contract design

48. Sukuk structures and asset-backing

49. Risk allocation and cash-flow waterfalls

50. Information asymmetry, certification, and standards

51. Liquidity, investor base diversification

52. Agglomeration economies and clusters

53. FDI attraction and place-based industrial policy

54. Spillovers (knowledge, suppliers, networks)

55. Human capital pipelines and skill ecosystems

56. Infrastructure as a complement to investment

57. Institutions and political legitimacy

58. Collective action and protest dynamics

59. State capacity and enforcement costs

60. Credibility of reform and path dependence

61. Political economy of ideology vs material incentives

Now including a brand new collection of Case Studies that examine the economic policies of President Trump following his election on November 6th 2024. These look in particular at:

• Tariffs

• China’s growth

• World Economy

• Tax cuts

• Exporters

• Impact on seniors

• Exchange rate

  
  

  BEFORE YOU ENROL:

1. Watch the Preview video on Microeconomics

2. Watch the sample lectures on Business and Microeconomics

3. Thoroughly read this course description

4. Be fully aware that participation is encouraged - that means there are Microeconomics manuals (several) numerous discussions (Q/A sections) and regular Education Announcements

5. To achieve the Oxford Diploma (Microeconomics and Business) requires quite a lot of work. To acquire the Completion Certificate you can just watch. You can choose to do either, neither or both. Questions are responded to quickly.

6. Remember too that this course includes an OPTIONAL course in Business Economics English.

MOTIVATION

I make courses on Udemy primarily because I enjoy the process of causing learning. Many of my courses are to improve lives. One of the Economics courses is to raise money for charity. (100% of revenue goes to the charity) Fundamentally this course is about helping you.

About the course

This is a course covering the key areas in micro economics at a beginners/intermediate level. It is the principles of economics that are emphasised, repeated and supported with notes. Very clearly explained and reinforced with notes and revision lectures. This course is IDEAL for the beginner who wants to advance quickly.

Topics covered:

• Market failure

• Taxation

• Subsidies

• Demand

• Supply

• Price elasticity of demand

• Price elasticity of supply

• Elasticity and how to interpret it

• Elasticity - calculations

• Elasticity - shape of curves

• Elasticity - tax/subsidy incidence

• Ceteris paribus

• Consumer surplus

• Producer surplus

• Microeconomics of football

This course is ideal for the BEGINNER who wishes to progress as well as someone with experience in studying Economics as the topics are pitched at several levels.

Why learn from me?

• 5 years experience as a Buyer for a multinational car company

• Owner of two companies in the Education sector

• Trainer of Economics and Business teachers

• 30 years experience in teaching/lecturing Economics in Oxford (UK) and worldwide

• Highly responsive to questions asked relating to lectures

• Constantly improving and developing courses at Udemy

REGULAR ANNOUNCEMENTS MAKE SURE THIS COURSE IS ALWAYS UP TO DATE.