Business Economics
your week, on one page
Mentor Jagan Gopinath
Your blocks two 75-min core sessions each morning
SOF runs afternoons: India Lens, labs, showcase
Credits 2.0 · scored end of week in Gravity
Your blocks two 75-min core sessions each morning
SOF runs afternoons: India Lens, labs, showcase
Credits 2.0 · scored end of week in Gravity
Mon
Micro I
Circular flow · supply & demand · Mission 02 out
Tue
Micro II
Surplus, costs · elasticity & scale
Wed
Micro III
Pricing, game theory, markets · Lens I · Lab A
Thu
Macro
Nifty, GDP, FRED · policy · Lens II · Lab B
Fri
Close
Exchange rates · Lab C · Mission Showcase
The arc, in one line
Micro builds Monday to Wednesday, macro lands Thursday, Friday closes with exchange rates and the fellows proving the week on a real business. Every afternoon applies what your morning taught: concepts in the morning, Indian cases after lunch, hands-on lab right after. Nothing you teach waits more than a few hours before fellows use it.
Daily shape · your mornings, our afternoons
9:30 coffee shot
10:00–11:15 your core 1
11:15 break
11:30–12:45 your core 2
12:45 lunch
14:00 onward SOF-run
| Monday | Circular Flow of Income — Bisleri opener, an economy as an aggregate of transactions. Then Supply & Demand — curves, movements vs shifts. At day close SOF briefs Mission 02: Read a Real Business Like an Economist. Fellows pick a real business and observe it evenings all week through your concepts. |
| Tuesday | Surplus & Cost Concepts — consumer surplus, marginal cost, opportunity cost. Then Elasticity & Scale — elasticity, fixed vs variable costs, economies of scale. |
| Wednesday | Price Discrimination + Game Theory, then Market Structures + Market Failure. PM: India Lens I, micro cases (Licence Raj, Jio predatory pricing, Onion Crisis), then Lab A, The Micro Lens — fellows apply your three days of micro to real businesses. You're welcome in the room for both. |
| Thursday | Macro Opener — Nifty since 2000, GDP and components, live FRED demo (we'll have the screen and internet tested before you walk in). Then Monetary & Fiscal Policy — repo rate, inflation, fiscal vs monetary. PM: India Lens II, macro cases (Demonetisation, Funding Winter, K-Shaped Recovery), then Lab B, The Macro Lens. |
| Friday | Exchange Rates — USD-INR kept applied: cashew and spice exporters, Gulf remittance families. Then Lab C, The Synthesis (SOF-run), and from 14:00 the Mission Showcase: debrief circles of 8–10, best conversations to the room. You score in the room with the PRs. |
Office Hours
- One-on-one time with fellows in the afternoon flex windows. Private, unscored, a few slots only this week.
- PRs manage the roster and bring fellows to you 2–3 at a time. You just hold the conversation.
Two content requests
- For game theory examples, we suggest IPL media-rights bidding or Ola/Uber over Netflix/Blu-Ray — and best to skip Jio, since fellows meet it as a full India Lens case the same afternoon.
- Keep exchange rates applied rather than mechanical: our fellows know exporters and remittance families, not the DXY.
Scoring · all grading happens end of week
0.8
Participation
All five days, in your sessions and ours.
0.6
Labs
Labs A, B, C. Application over recall.
0.6
Mission
The business read: specificity, concepts used, insight, honesty.
- You and the PRs enter scores directly in Gravity by Friday end of day. We'll set up your access before Monday.
- Friday panel: you and the PRs in the room; Prantik joins remote.
What we need from you before Monday
- Confirm your on-campus days. The week assumes all five mornings; if fewer, we compress your cores into your days and the afternoons stay SOF-run as designed.
- Your slides for the week, so we can load them on the room screen and check the FRED demo end to end.
The School of Future · Cohort 1 · shared with the mentor · the schedule of record lives in the SOF Weekly Scheduler sheet, tab W3 - BizEcon. If this page and the sheet disagree, the sheet wins.