Principles of Microeconomics — Unit 2: Consumer Theory

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Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 14.01SC Principles of Microeconomics, Fall 2011, Prof. Jonathan Gruber — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: this unit's sessions in MIT's listing order. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 22, 2026. How RedLectern is built.

Instructor: Prof. Jonathan Gruber
Term: Fall 2011
Level: Undergraduate
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Preferences and Utility

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Principles of Microeconomics — Unit 2: Consumer Theory

Materials by section

Preferences and Utility

Budget Constraints

Problem Set 2

Deriving Demand Curves

Applying Consumer Theory: Labor

Problem Set 3

Lecture 4: Preferences and Utility

Lecture 5: Budget Constraints

Lecture 6: Deriving Demand Curves