Class Information

Business School Classes - Economics Department Classes

Business, Economics and Society
Business 200

• Syllabus - Summer 2009
  
• Class Notes
• Homework
  
• Handouts
  
  • Hazlitt - Economics in One Lesson (Week 1)
• I, Pencil (Week 1)
• Bastiat's Broken Window Fallacy (Week 1)
• Supply and Demand for Models (Week 2)
• NYT Trade Article (Week 2)
• WSJ Trade Tirade (Week 2)
• Trade and Terror (Week 2)
• Price Gouging (Week 3)
• Hayek - Use of Knowledge in Society (Week 3)
• Friedman on Yap Island Stone Money (Week 3)
• Market for Organs (Week 4)
• Henderson on Minimum Wage (Week 4)
• Affordable Housing (Week 4)
• Game Theory (Week 5)
• Deal Sweeteners (Week 5)
• Yugoslavia's Hyperinflation (Week 7)
• The Inequality Myth (Week 7)
• Moving up in Mumbai (Week 7)
• Corruption? Ho-hum. (Week 7)
  

Principles of Macroeconomics
Economics 1A

• Syllabus - Winter 2010
• Course Key
• Handouts
  • Hazlitt - Economics in One Lesson
  • Supply and Demand for Models
  • I, Pencil
  • Myth: Price Gouging is Bad
  • Cafta Article
  • Henderson on Minimum Wage
  • Decision Markets
  • A Picture of Hyperinflation

Economic Development
Economics 112

• Syllabus - Spring 2010
• Video Project Guidelines
• Class Notes
  • 27 Jan Slides - Intro
  • 1 Feb Slides - Intro Continued - Solow
  • 3 Feb Slides - Solow
  • 8 Feb Slides - Population
  • 10 Feb and 17 Feb Slides - Human Capital
  • 22 Feb Slides - Technology
  • 1 Mar Slides - Culture
  • 3 Mar Slides - Culture part 2
  • 10 Mar Slides - Democarcy
• Handouts
  • Mountain Man vs. Congo Doctor (Week 1)
  • Boudreaux on Immigration (Week 3)
  • Becker on Population (Week 3)
  • AIDS (Week 3)
  • Malaria (Week 3)
  • Tooley on Education (Week 3)
  • Patent Protection (Week 4)
  • Cowen on Culture (Week 6)
  • China Rail Threatens Tibet (Week 6)

International Economics
Economics 136

• Syllabus - Spring 2010
• Video Project Guidelines
• Handouts
  • I, Pencil (Week 1)
  • Bastiat Excerpt - "What is Seen and What is Unseen" (Week 2)
  • WSJ - Capital Investment (Week 3)
  • Nursing Ambitions (Week 4)
  • NYT Trade Article (Week 5)
  • Powell on Immigration (Week 6)
  • Boudreaux on the Trade Deficit (Week 7)
  • Gisele Dumps Ben (Week 9)
  • Interest Rates and Dollar Fundamentals (Week 11)
  • Treacherous Places (Week 12)
  • Cowen on Balance of Payments (Week 13)
  • Globalization Winner joins in Trade Backlash (Week 15)
  • Trade Tirade (Week 15)
• Class Notes
  • 27 Jan Slides - Chp 1
  • 1 Feb Slides - Chp 1 Continued - Chp 2
  • 3 Feb Slides - Chp 2
  • 8 Feb and 10 Feb Slides - Chp 2
  • 17 Feb Slides - Chp 4
  • 22 Feb Slides - Chp 5
  • 1 Mar Slides - Chp 6
  • 3 Mar - No New Slides
  • 8 Mar Slides - Chps 7-8
  • 10 Mar Slides - Chp 8 - Continued

Workshop in Policy Analysis
Economics 205B

• Syllabus - Spring 2010
• Readings:
  • Polanyi - Tacit Knowing
  • Hayek - Laws, Commands and Order

Economic Development
Economics 212

• Syllabus - Fall 2008
• Presentation Guidelines
• Article Critique
• Class Notes
  

Money and Banking
Economics 310

• Syllabus - Fall 2005
• Handouts
  • Big MacCurrencies
  • Federal Reserve requirements
    

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