Aligarh Muslim University is a public university funded by the Government of India. It was originally established by Sir Syed Ahmad Khan as Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College in 1875


As you asking for the Syllabus of the subject Macro Economics of the BA Economics I sem is as follow :

Unit-1 Consumer theory
Nature and Scope of Economics, Methodology of Economics, Demand and supply function; Law of demand, Elasticity of demand – price, income and cross elasticities, and their measurements; Elasticity of supply; Price determination.
Theory of consumer behaviour: Cardinal and ordinal Utility analysis and Consumer’s equilibrium. Indifference curve and its properties, the consumer-– price consumption curve and income consumption curve, - price effect, income effect and substitution effect (Hicks and Slutsky methods), inferior goods and giffen goods, derivation of demand curve.

Unit-2 Production, Costs & Revenue
Production decisions; Production function; law of variable proportions; returns to scale; characteristics of Isoquants, Factor substitution; Ridge lines; least cost combination of factors, Internal and external economies and diseconomies.

Cost function: different concepts of costs, short run cost analysis and long run cost Analysis- relation between the expansion path and cost function.
Concepts of revenue; total, average and marginal revenue and their relationships, Break-even-analysis & its uses.

Unit-3 Market Structure
Perfect and imperfect markets, Pure competition, Equilibrium of the firm and industry under perfect competition, Role of time element in the determination of value, supply curve under perfect competition,
Equilibrium of the firm under monopoly, Discriminating monopoly, Conditions of equilibrium under price discrimination, Degree of monopoly power.

the rest of the syllabus you may get from the below attachments that is free to download


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Address: Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh
Phone: 0571 270 0935

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Syllabus of the BA Economics I sem subject Macro Economics.pdf (269.3 KB, 159 views)