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About the Course

All goods and services are subject to scarcity at some level, which requires that society develop some allocation mechanism to determine who gets what. Over recorded history, these allocation rules were usually command based, meaning that the king or the emperor would decide. In contemporary times, most countries have turned to market-based allocation systems. In markets, prices act as rationing devices, encouraging or discouraging production and encouraging or discouraging consumption to find an equilibrium allocation of resources. To understand this process, businesses construct demand curves to capture consumer behavior and consider supply curves to capture producer behavior. The resulting equilibrium price “rations” the scarce commodity. You will be able to: • Describe consumer behavior as captured by the demand curve and producer behavior as captured by the supply curve • Define equilibrium and explain the impact of taxes and price controls on market equilibrium • Explain elasticity of demand • Describe cost theory and how firms optimize given the constraints of their own costs and an exogenously given price This course is part of Gies College of Business’ suite of online programs, including the iMBA and iMSM. Learn more about admission into these programs and explore how your Coursera work can be leveraged if accepted into a degree program at https://degrees.giesbusiness.illinois.edu/idegrees/....

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SN

Feb 3, 2019

Absolutely made me understand firm level economics concepts. Good practice and foundation building.Professor is great and engages will with real life examples and connections.

SS

May 31, 2020

Though being a student in technical field, i was easy for me to become familiar with the subject, as all basics were point to point explained. Larry sir was amazing xD. "I have got the pen"

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By Cezanne P

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Mar 21, 2021

Larry is a great instructor. Very human approach

By Javier E P

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Aug 1, 2016

Loved the course. Had a wonderful time studying!

By Joshi A B

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Feb 14, 2026

verry good to learn very good study material ..

By CANTORNE, J B

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Dec 16, 2020

It was able to help me in my subjects in school

By 19UCO123 C A D

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Dec 4, 2020

very useful and wonderful to students to study.

By Vaibhav D

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Jul 4, 2020

economics made easy to understand. helped a lot

By Moubana A K

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Jan 13, 2018

Excellent course for business decision making .

By Alexander R

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Nov 11, 2020

Great course! Learned a lot from Dr. Debrock.

By Devin P

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Nov 9, 2020

I had a fantastic experience with this course!

By Gyanabrata L

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Jul 18, 2025

Excellent course for anyone new to economics.

By DENIS K B A (

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Jan 9, 2025

Very good online class and easy to understand

By Rohit G

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Mar 25, 2023

A quick course which is very informational :)

By Ponnusamy J

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Nov 29, 2021

Prof Larry is fantastic guy. Excellent course

By Hoàng H C

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Mar 16, 2020

Good lesson & it is very useful. Thanks a lot

By Harish G

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Nov 10, 2020

Amazing course and content by Prof LeBrock !

By Fahim A R

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Jun 7, 2020

This course explains economics at its roots!

By jodu p b

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May 30, 2020

Its great thing to learn from economic sides

By Esteban G

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Apr 11, 2020

Excellent course, the instructor is awesome!

By dileep k

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Nov 21, 2021

The professors' teaching style is too good.

By Akriti S

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Jul 11, 2020

Great course! Strengthened my fundamentals!

By Lorenzo B

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Jul 13, 2020

Exciting course and excellently explained.

By MCENROE N T E

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Nov 11, 2018

easy understanding and in dept explanation

By Andre F

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Nov 17, 2016

Excellent course with a great explanation.

By Apoorva

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Oct 6, 2020

I learned demand, supply and English too.