Enjoy "not knowing"!
Research Themes
We will study microeconomics in general. Microeconomics is a discipline that analyzes how scarce resources are allocated to various entities and activities through markets and other methods, and what mechanisms are in place to "successfully" allocate such scarce resources. It provides analytical methods and frameworks of thought that are used in economics in general, so studying it will help you understand what problems modern economics deals with and what it is thinking about. You will also learn how to solve "optimization problems," which are essential in economics. Optimization problems are a method that is widely used not only in economics but also in engineering analysis, so it will not hurt you to acquire this as part of your mathematical knowledge. Mathematical ability is not required at the time of entering the seminar. Students who are interested in mathematical analysis are welcome!
Activities
For the first two semesters, you will study the basics of microeconomics and macroeconomics in a joint seminar with the Otsuka seminar of Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration Economics. The Otsuka-Goto seminar is the only joint seminar Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration (check out the Otsuka seminar). You can think of it as having two supervisors.
In the seminar, we will read the textbook and do exercises. In addition to solving the exercises in the textbook in advance, students are required to summarize and present the assigned part of the textbook. Please be prepared to answer questions from other students and the teacher. Do your best to be able to answer any questions from the teacher!
The level of study is aimed at the level where you can solve economics problems on the civil service exam. You will be doing a lot of practice problems, so it will be a good study. Students who are interested in the civil service exam are welcome!
It is often said that studying is fun when you begin to understand. Of course, understanding is very important. However, I think it is even more important to think about things you don't understand by trial and error, trying this and that. Enjoy the process of trying to understand things you don't understand!