This document provides an overview of concepts to be covered in an economics lecture, including: 1) Unconstrained and constrained optimization 2) Linear programming involving primal problems, shadow prices, and profit/cost minimization 3) An example of a corner point combination showing the lowest cost production requires 5/3 cases of good A and 2/3 cases of good B 4) Determining shadow prices by setting up and simultaneously solving equations involving labor, material, and production capital constraints