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Ziyu
BA California State University-Long Beach
9+ Years Tutoring

I'm an affable chemistry-loving person whose joy come from delivering knowledge :D

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Katherine
BA University of Pennsylvania
1+ Years Tutoring

Supply and demand curves are just the starting point — microeconomics gets interesting when students tackle consumer theory, elasticity, and market structures like oligopoly and monopolistic competition. Katherine's economics degree from Penn and her day job in management consulting mean she can ground these models in real business decisions, making abstract graphs feel intuitive.

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Christopher
BA University of California Los Angeles
1+ Years Tutoring

At UCLA, Christopher studied economics with a double major that gave him both the quantitative models and the historical context behind how markets actually develop — useful when explaining why perfectly competitive markets rarely exist or how government intervention reshapes incentive structures. His time at Deutsche Bank adds a practical dimension to topics like firm pricing behavior and cost analysis, since he's seen how businesses weigh marginal decisions with real money on the line.

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Andrew
BA Cornell University
6+ Years Tutoring

Andrew's Labor and Industrial Relations degree at Cornell covers significant microeconomic ground — labor markets, wage determination, firm behavior under different bargaining structures — giving him a practical lens on concepts like supply and demand, market power, and efficiency. He teaches students to think through how incentives shape decisions at the individual and firm level, grounding abstract models in the kind of real-world labor and industry examples that make the logic click. Rated 4.9 by students.

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Ryan
BA University of Chicago
1+ Years Tutoring

Elasticity, marginal cost curves, game theory matrices — microeconomics is deceptively math-heavy for a social science. Ryan earned his bachelor's degree in economics and tackles micro by grounding every graph and equation in the real-world decision it represents, so students can reason through unfamiliar problems on exams instead of relying on memorized steps.

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Jacob
Current Undergrad Student, Economics Vanderbilt University
8+ Years Tutoring

Pursuing a PhD in economics means Jacob isn't just passing through microeconomics — he's building a career on it, with the mathematical rigor from his joint math studies to back it up. He teaches students to think through models like a researcher would, connecting the intuition behind consumer choice or firm behavior to the calculus that formalizes it. Rated 5.0 by students.

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Hans
BA Northwestern University
10+ Years Tutoring

Elasticity, consumer surplus, market structures, deadweight loss — microeconomics is full of concepts that seem intuitive until you're asked to graph them or solve for equilibrium mathematically. Hans pairs his Northwestern economics training with a knack for walking through the algebra behind the graphs, making sure students understand both the visual and quantitative sides of each model. He holds a 5.0 rating.

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Sheena
BA Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College
1+ Years Tutoring

Elasticity, consumer surplus, and market structures like monopolistic competition can feel abstract until someone maps them to decisions you actually make. Sheena, who is pursuing an accelerated Master's in Economics, teaches microeconomics by anchoring each concept in concrete scenarios — why airlines price-discriminate, how a tax shifts deadweight loss, what drives firm entry in the long run. She makes the graphs tell a story rather than just sit on the page.

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Hari
MBA University of South Florida-Main Campus • BA Washington University in St. Louis
1+ Years Tutoring

Supply and demand curves are just the starting point — Hari digs into elasticity, marginal utility, and market structures like oligopoly and monopolistic competition to show how firms actually make pricing decisions. His MBA in Finance gives him real-world context for concepts like cost curves and profit maximization that textbooks often present too abstractly. Rated 5.0 by students.

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Mattias
BA Stanford University
10+ Years Tutoring

I am currently working in a Bronx Public School as a teaching apprentice in Algebra. I have four years of experience tutoring one on one with students of all ages.

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Elliot
BA University of Chicago
9+ Years Tutoring

Supply and demand curves are just the starting point — Elliot digs into elasticity, market structures, and consumer theory with the rigor you'd expect from a University of Chicago economics student. He breaks down concepts like marginal utility and producer surplus using real-world pricing scenarios that make the math behind the graphs click. Rated 4.9 by students.

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Thomas
BA Carleton College
1+ Years Tutoring

The math behind microeconomics — setting up Lagrangians for constrained optimization, deriving demand from utility functions, finding equilibrium prices algebraically — is where most students hit a wall. Thomas's math and stats training at Carleton means he can teach both the economic intuition and the calculus simultaneously, so a concept like profit maximization isn't just "set MC equal to MR" but a problem a student can actually solve and interpret. Rated 5.0 by students.

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Natalie
Current Undergrad Student, Civil Engineering Duke University
6+ Years Tutoring

Consumer choice theory, production functions, market structures — microeconomics is full of models that look abstract until someone shows you how they map onto real behavior. Natalie's dual focus in economics and engineering at Duke means she approaches these models both intuitively and mathematically, breaking down each graph until the logic behind it is clear.

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