ECON 191 Syllabus (Spring 2020)
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ECON 191 Economic Thought of Nobel Prize Winners

Understanding the Socratic Seminar Format

• YouTube: The power of Socratic Seminars in the classroom!
• YouTube: How to Conduct a Socratic Seminar
• 5 Steps to a Successful Socratic Seminar
• Socratic Seminar Guidelines (pdf)
• Question Prompts (pdf)

Handouts

Instructor's Note: I may add articles to this page over the course of the semester. I will notify users that content has changed and will also mention the update in class.​ ​

• Nobel Laureate Website
• List of Logical Fallacies
• List of Cognitive Biases

Week 2: Allais, Hicks, and Arrow

• Allais Paradox
• Hicksian Demand
• Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

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Week 6: Nash; Aumann and Schelling

• Bayes' Theorem (YouTube)
• Schelling Point: Cooperating Without Communicating (YouTube)
• Game Theory 101: Focal Points (YouTube)

Week 7: Friedman

• Three failures (MMT, statism, Keynesianism) and a (monetarist) success (Econlib)
• The Phillips Curve may be broken for good (The Economist)
• Where is the Phillips Curve? (Philadelphia Federal Reserve)

Research Resources

Other Resources

• AEA Resources for Economists
• American Enterprise Institute
• The Foundation for Economic Education 
• The Independent Institute
• ​The National Bureau of Economic Research (use an .edu email to access papers)

Students may also find interesting topics on The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, and The New York Times

​Reference Management Software (Free)

• Mendeley (Best for Chrome)
• Zotero (Best for Firefox)

Class Resources

Thought Paper Rubric
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Final Paper Rubric
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