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Introduction
Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium
Elasticity and Its Applications
Taxes and Subsidies
The Price System
Price Ceilings and Price Floors
Trade
- Tariffs and Protectionism
- Arguments Against International Trade
- (Coming Soon) Office Hours: Trade
Externalities
Costs and Profit Maximization Under Competition
Competition and the Invisible Hand
Monopoly
Price Discrimination
Labor Markets
Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Commons
Asymmetric Information
Consumer Choice
GDP
The Wealth of Nations and Economic Growth
Growth, Capital Accumulation, and the Economics of Ideas
Savings, Investment, and the Financial System
Personal Finance
Unemployment and Labor Force Participation
Inflation and Quantity Theory of Money
Business Fluctuations
Business Cycle Theories
- (Coming Soon) 5 minutes on Keynesianism
- (Coming Soon) 5 minutes on Monetarism
- (Coming Soon) 5 minutes on RBC
- (Coming Soon) 5 minutes on Austrian Business Cycle Theory
- (Coming Soon) Business Cycle Theories and the Great Recession
Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve
- Monetary Policy and the Fed
- (Coming Soon) The U.S. Money Supplies
- (Coming Soon) The Money Multiplier
- (Coming Soon) How the Fed Works: Before the Great Recession
- (Coming Soon) How the Fed Works: After the Great Recession
- (Coming Soon) The Federal Reserve: Lender of Last Resort
- (Coming Soon) Monetary Policy: The Best Case
- (Coming Soon) The Negative Real Shock Dilemma
- (Coming Soon) When the Fed Does Too Much
Fiscal Policy
- (Coming Soon) Fiscal Policy: The Best Case
Course:Money Skills
Investing
Course:Everyday Economics
Don Boudreaux on Trade and Prosperity
Tyler Cowen on...
- (Coming Soon) Premature Deindustrialization
Various Topics
Tyler Cowen on American Culture and Innovation
Course:Understanding Data
Introduction
Basic Terms and Concepts
- Mean, Median, Mode
- Standard Deviation, Interquartile Range, Minimum, and Maximum
- Skewness and Outliers
- Correlation
- Data Structure: Cross-Sectional, Time Series, and Panel Data
Intro to Regression Analysis
- Simple Linear Regression: Intercept and Slope
- Precision and Sample Size
- Goodness of Fit: The R-Squared
- How to Interpret the Residuals
- Using Regression for Prediction
Multiple Regression Analysis: Estimation and Inference
- Multiple Regression Analysis
- Multicollinearity: Highly Correlated Explanatory Variables
- Omitted Variable Bias: Excluding a Relevant Explanatory Variable
- Including Irrelevant Explanatory Variables
- Statistical and Practical Significance: The p-Value
Multiple Regression Analysis: Data Issues
- Missing Data
- Non-Random Samples
- Truncated Data
Course:Econ Duel
Fiscal Policy
Monetary Policy
Course:Development Economics
Geography and Development 1
Food and Agricultural Productivity
- Garlic (Optional)
- A tomato border crossing (Optional)
- Wheat, water, and Saudi Arabia (Optional)
- Yams, a man’s crop? (Optional)
- The Rice Price Spike of 2007-2008 (Optional)
- The Soy Boom (Optional)
- Malawi restricts trade in corn (Optional)
- The Clove Monopoly (Optional)
- Watermelon scale economies (Optional)
Water Economics
Geography and Development 2
Economic Growth 1
Economic Growth 2
Midterm
Bottlenecks, Linkages and Intermediate Goods
Productivity of firms
Trade
Property Rights
Corruption
Foreign aid
Finance, Growth and the Poor
Poverty and Behavior
Health
Education
Politics, democracy, and war
Migration
Population and environment
India
- India’s early growth history
- East India Company
- Land taxation in early India
- The deindustrialization of India
- Education in colonial India
- Railroads and colonial India
- Gandhi and the Salt March
- Did British rule help India?
- India since Independence
- India's toughest economic times
- India’s growth inflection
- India’s reforms of the 1990s
- Trade and poverty in India
- Agriculture in India
- Green Revolution
- Land reform in India
- Food crises and India’s media
- Power generation in India
- Foreign investment in India
- Competition from foreign retailers
- Labor market regulation
- Bankruptcy law in India
- India’s macroeconomic stability
- Castes and groundwater trade
- India’s air and water pollution
- Mobility in the caste system
- Corruption in driver’s licenses
- Lentils as incentive
- The Kerala Paradox
- The Rise of Private Education in India
- Testing for Cream Skimming in India
- Edward Luce on India
- India business profiles
- Service sector growth
- Frugal innovation for the heart
- The value of English
- Female leadership in India
- Cable TV and women
- The economics of Bollywood
- Amartya Sen #1
- Amartya Sen #2
- Amartya Sen #3
- Partha Dasgupta
- Jagdish N. Bhagwati
People (References/Optional)
- Elinor Ostrom
- Partha Dasgupta
- Paul Romer
- William Easterly
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Joseph Stiglitz
- Robert Townsend
- Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer
- Amartya Sen #1
- Amartya Sen #2
- Amartya Sen #3
- Paul Collier
- Dani Rodrik
- Daron Acemoglu
- Hernando de Soto
- Jeffrey Sachs | Conversations with Tyler
- Dani Rodrik | Conversations with Tyler
Course:International Finance
Introduction to International Trade and Finance
Exchange Rates
Currency Issues
The Euro Crisis
- The Three Sides of the Crisis
- The Case for Optimism
- The Case for Pessimism
- European Central Bank
- The Bailout Funds
- Why are high bond yields a problem?
- The Italian Crisis of 2013
- The costs of leaving the Eurozone
- Remarks on individual countries
- Currency union collapse in history
- Indicators for Eurozone progress
- Life on the precipice
- Will austerity work?
- Effects on other multilateral agreements
- Optimum currency areas
- Optimum currency areas and the Euro
- Why is the Euro so bland?
- Tyler Cowen lecture at the Bruno Leoni Institute (Optional)
- Understanding the Eurocrisis (Optional)
- Iceland: Causes of the Crisis
- Iceland: Collapse
International Trade Overview
Crises and Responses to Them
Course:International Trade
Introduction to International Trade
International Trade and Trade Restrictions Part 1
International Trade and Trade Restrictions Part 2
International Trade and the Firm Part 1
International Trade and the Firm Part 2
International Trade and the Factors of Production
Consequences of International Trade Part 1
Consequences of International Trade Part 2
Before Adam Smith, Part 1
Before Adam Smith, Part 2
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations, Book One
Wealth of Nations, Book Two
Wealth of Nations, Book Three
Wealth of Nations, Book Four
Wealth of Nations, Book Five
After Adam Smith, Part One
After Adam Smith, Part Two
Practical issues faced by the classical economists
Friedrich A. Hayek’s Individualism and Economic Order
Course:The Eurozone Crisis
Background
Further analysis of the problems
Underlying theory
Course:Economics of the Media
Basic economics of media
Media bias
Media and government
Media and economic development
Colonial Legacies: Obstacles to Growth after Independence
Development Strategies
Social Issues
Land & Agriculture
The Debt Crisis of the 1980s
The State Retreats: Reform in the 1980s & 1990s
NAFTA & the Mexican Economy
Modern Mexico
Introduction to Soviet Economic History
Marx's Labor Theory of Value
Planning to Plan
Marxist Utopianism
From Revolution to Planning
War Communism: Lessons for Leaders
The Retreat to Markets: The New Economic Policy
The New Economic Policy in Crisis
Stalinism and Alternatives
The Path to Stalinism and the Party Line
Stalin's Rise and The Tragedy of Collectivization
Basic mortgage arithmetic
Housing as an investment
Mortgage process part 2
Risk management part 1
Mortgage process part 3
Introduction to mortgage analytics
Modeling the default option
Risk Management at Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae
Painful historical episodes & policy responses
Policy Problems in Housing Finance
Course:Principios de Microeconomía
Principios de Microeconomía
- Curva de demanda
- Elasticidad-precio
- Controles de Precios
- Determinantes de la Elasticidad-precio
- Otras elasticidades
- Curva de indiferencia y curva de presupuesto
- Variaciones de ingreso
- Efecto-ingreso y efecto-sustitución
- Ley de rendimientos decrecientes
- Costos en el corto plazo
- Costos en el largo plazo
- Equilibrio de la Empresa en Competencia Perfecta
- Oferta y Demanda en Competencia Perfecta
- Efectos de un Impuesto sobre Ventas
- Impuestos sobre Importaciones (Protección Arancelaria)
- Monopolio Puro
- Equilibrio del Monopolista
- Regulación del Monopolio
- Discriminación de Precios
- Discriminación de Precios -- Tercer Caso
- Carteles
- Modelo de Firma Dominante
- Oligopolio
- Competencia Monopolística
- Competencia Monopolística (continuación)
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