Posted in Economics, Rants and Raves, Teaching on Oct 21st, 2006
Yesterday, I had a wonderful opportunity to give a presentation in front of a couple hundred Principles of Microeconomics students. The slides are here. I thought it went pretty well, and several students were interested enough in the material to come talk to me afterwards and/or give me a thanks (which, by the [...]
Posted in Economics, Rants and Raves, Teaching on Oct 6th, 2005
So, these blog things are hard to keep up. I may or may not start trying again. But, to try and get me motivated, let me know what you think of the following two articles. Both are really short reads, I came across both today, and both have to deal with your favorite topic, and [...]
Posted in Economics, Rants and Raves on Jun 8th, 2005
About 10 weeks ago, many of our offices at school were broken into and lots of books were stolen. I myself lost about $500 in textbooks. Larry had his laptop stolen! You’d think this would get a pretty big response from the UWPD since there were no signs of forced entry, implying [...]
Posted in Economics, Rants and Raves on Apr 12th, 2005
Sean Carroll sent me this clip recently about a movie called “Kontroll“. For those of you who may not know, I spent about 3 and a half months studying in Budapest in the fall of 2000. This whole clip is based in the same Metro system that I rode everyday while I was [...]