INSTRUCTORS

  Below are the documents that were distributed at some time or other during the progress of the course.  If you misplaced your copy, you may download it from this page.  We posted the files in Adobe Acrobat format so that as many students can read the files as possible.  Please note that you may not be able to view these files from the public-access web terminals on campus.

Syllabus  

Date Lab Reading
1/19 Economist: "The ethics gap"
1/26 Paul Krugman: Three op-ed pieces on the California energy crisis 
Economist: "When lights go out"
2/2 Economist: "Going too far in support of trade"
2/9 Paul Krugman: "In praise of cheap labor," The accidental theorist
2/16 New Yorker: "The agony of victory and thrill of defeat"
2/23 New Yorker: "Empathy defense"
2/30 New Yorker: "Credit card kings"
3/30 Economist: "Don't ban smokers"
4/20 New Yorker: "What price, Hollywood?"

 

Date Topic
Jan 17, 22, 24 What is a firm?
Jan 24, 29 General equilibrium with welfare analysis
Jan 31, Feb 5 Trade
Feb 5, 7 Input markets
Feb 12 Income distribution
Feb 14 Taxes and tax incidence
Feb 14 Auctions
Feb 19, 21 Welfare
Feb 26 Cost-benefit analysis
Feb 28 Unemployment
Mar 5 Monopoly and price competition
Mar 9 Natural monopoly and power regulation
Mar 21 Imperfect competition
Mar 26 Time consistency
Mar 28 Externalities
Apr 4 Coase: Law and economics
Apr 9 Regulations and pricing, peak-load pricing
Apr 16 Economic reasoning