October 11, 2009
Britain's Central Planning Death Panels
October 11, 2009
Free Market M.D.
October 11, 2009
Economies of Scale in Compliance
October 11, 2009
Balan's Challenge
October 10, 2009
The Pleasure of Telling Others What to Do
October 10, 2009
Gonick the Great - and How He Could Have Been Greater
October 9, 2009
More Scott Sumner
October 9, 2009
Not From The Onion
October 9, 2009
Thoughts on a Second Stimulus
EconPhD forever! :-)
http://www.econphd.net/notes.htm
I took the Intro to Economics class as a freshman at CMU. The workbooks in the online courseware are very similar to the experiments that we did in class. Everyone in class participated in the experiments; doing well in the experiment required knowledge of the economics principles behind the experiment as well as a little luck/bargaining skills. Those students who performed the best in each experiment won prizes. I liked the course (and the experiments) so much that I did my humanities concentration in economics and was a TA for the course as a senior. (And, as you can see, I read academic economics blogs despite the fact that my career in computer science has little to do with academic economics.) It wasn't until I was a graduate student with many years of coursework under my belt that I realized: (a) just how much work the professor had put into making the course interactive, interesting, and challenging, and (b) I should have taken advantage of the professor's offer to have lunch with his students. He was a really neat guy.
www.gametheory.net has a list of text books (some online) some of which relate to economics, all of which relate to game theory
Here's something worth a visit: http://www.bized.ac.uk/