Syllabus: MWF(8 a.m.), TR(8 a.m. and 3:35 p.m.)
Here are some good questions from lecture and e-mail.
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This class is now run through Aplia (www.aplia.com). If you are in one of my sections, you should go there and log in using the "Aplia Student Registration" Instructions handed out on the first day of class. If you did not receive (or lost) those instructions, e-mail me (tony.cookson@gmail.com) and I will reply with the course code. Your first graded Aplia assignment is due on Saturday 19 January 2008.
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Below is a sampling of how this course website used to look.
Group Work Assignments
Group Work 1: Jim and the Broken Window
Group Work 2: Demand versus Quantity Demanded
In-Class Examples and Notes on Difficult Concepts
Comparative Advantage Example (Jack and Patty, cooking and chores... same problem as "The Electrician and the Carpenter" in your text)
Homework Assignments
Exams and Exam Study Materials
Prerequisite Math Test
- Solving Systems of Equations
- Interpreting and computing areas on graphs
- Ratio computations
This worksheet has some good Practice Problems. If you want to check your work, here are the solutions. Try to work out the practice problems before looking at the solutions. Working these problems should give you a good feel for how well you do at the math required for this course.
Interesting Economics Articles (seriously, they're fun)
Think about opportunity cost and comparative advantage when you read this article about sweatshops.
I, Pencil: Read this essay and think about the pervasiveness of markets.
Read this article to see one way how the rich get poorer.
Did you read the article about people waiting in line for Elton John tickets? Here's an interesting related article about x-box sales.
Here's an even better explanation for the lining up phenomenon of x-box sales.
Here's a Landsburg (author of your text) article on the normative (should we?) question of immigration.
Here is a New York times description of some farmers' response to immigration policy [there are some interesting ideas in this article. When reading this article ask yourself why U.S. farmers haven't been operating in Mexico this whole time. Ultimately, your answer should come down to costliness. So, why was it more costly (until recently) for U.S. farmers to have operations in Mexico? Could this be due to the same reason these farmers are currently renting (rather than owning) land?]