Allow use of extension courses for GPA? Allow online courses for major?
Concurrent enrollment extension yes. Other extension no.
102, 195--what to do. Totally intractable problem.
Steve Weber Open Source Book:
Economics 236 Syllabus:
1. Models
2. Effects of Monetary Policy
3. Central Banking -- Taylor Rules, Inflation Targeting, Greenspan in the Nineties
4. European Unemployment -- Blanchard
5. Bubbles
Jim Robinson (Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson), "A Reversal of Fortune: Institutional Roots of Prosperity"
--Unequal World
--Proximate vs. Fundamental Explanations
--Geography: Montesquiou, Machiavelli, Marshall. Diamond, Sachs.
--Culture: Weber. Landes, Huntington.
--Institutions: Locke, Smith. Olson, North.
--Institutions: organization of society, rules of the game, shaping incentives.
--Deal with interactions later. Do first-order effects now.
--Correlation Between Latitude and Prosperity (today, not 500 years ago).
--Malaria (criticisms)
--Religion
--Institutions: protection against expropriation.
--Reverse Causality
--South Korea vs. North Korea: 16 times in 2000.
--Political Institutions, Economic Institutions, Informal Institutions.
--Interaction of Institutions and Industrialization Opportunities During the Nineteenth Century
--Colonies of Settlement and Colonies of Plunder: Why did European colonialists set up better institutions in settler colonies.
Miguel, Gertler, and Levine.
Easterly vs. Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson.