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Course:The Eurozone Crisis

Background
Further analysis of the problems
Underlying theory
Updates and extensions
Exam

Course:Development Economics

Introduction
Geography and Development 1
People (References/Optional)
Food and Agricultural Productivity
Water Economics
Geography and Development 2
Economic Growth 1
Economic Growth 2
Midterm
Bottlenecks, Linkages and Intermediate Goods
Productivity of firms
Trade
Property Rights
Corruption
Foreign aid
Finance, Growth and the Poor
Poverty and Behavior
Health
Education
Politics, democracy, and war
Migration
Population and environment
India
Exam

Course:Great Economists: Classical Economics and its Forerunners

Before Adam Smith, Part 1
Before Adam Smith, Part 2
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations, Book One
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch 1, Division of Labor
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch. 2, Truck and Barter
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch. 3, Extent of the Market
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch. 4, Origin and Use of Money
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch. 5, Real and Nominal Price
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch. 6, Component Parts of Price
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch. 7, Natural Price and Market Price
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch. 8, Wages of Labor
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch. 9, Profits of Stock
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch. 10, Inequalities of Wages
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch. 11, Rent of Land
  • Adam Smith, Book 1, Ch. 11, Digression on Silver
Wealth of Nations, Book Two
  • Adam Smith, Book 2, Ch. 1, Nature and Division of Stock
  • Adam Smith, Book 2, Ch. 2, Of Money
  • Adam Smith, Book 2, Ch. 3, Unproductive Labor
  • Adam Smith, Book 2, Ch. 4, Interest and Usury
  • Adam Smith, Book 2, Ch. 5, Employment of Capitals
Wealth of Nations, Book Three
  • Adam Smith, Book 3, Ch. 1, “Progress of Opulence
  • Adam Smith, Book 3, Ch. 2, Discouragement of Agriculture
  • Adam Smith, Book 3, Ch. 3, Cities and Towns
  • Adam Smith, Book 3, Ch. 4, Towns and Country
Wealth of Nations, Book Four
  • Adam Smith, Book 4, Ch. 1, Mercantile Systems
  • Adam Smith, Book 4, Ch. 2, Restraints Upon Production
  • Adam Smith, Book 5, Ch. 1, pt. 3, Public Works
  • Adam Smith, Book 4, Ch. 3, 4-5
  • Adam Smith, Book 4, Ch. 6, Commerce Treaties
  • Adam Smith, Book 4, Ch. 7, Of Colonies
  • Adam Smith, Book 4, Ch. 8, Mercantile Conclusions
  • Adam Smith, Book 4, Ch. 9, Agricultural Systems
  • Adam Smith, Book 4, Digression on Corn
Wealth of Nations, Book Five
  • Adam Smith, Book 5, Ch. 1, pt. 1, Expense of Defense
  • Adam Smith, Book 5, Ch. 1, pt. 2, Expense of Justice
  • Adam Smith, Book 5, Ch. 1, pt. 3, article 2, Education of Youth
  • Adam Smith, Book 5, Ch. 1, pt. 3, article 3, Religious Instruction
  • Adam Smith, Book 5, Ch. 1, pt. 4, Expense of the Sovereign
  • Adam Smith, Book 5, Ch. 2, pt. 1-2, Sources of the Public Revenue
  • Adam Smith, Book 5, Ch. 2, pt. 3, article 4, Taxes on Commodities
  • Adam Smith in the Custom House
After Adam Smith, Part One
  • Condorcet
  • Jean-Baptiste Say
  • Malthus
  • Malthus on demand
  • Jeremy Bentham on government debt
  • Ricardo on rent
  • Robert Torrens and sliding tariffs
  • Robert Torrens on strategic trade policy
  • Life of Robert Torrens
  • Henry Thornton
  • Mountifort Longfield
  • Edward Gibbon Wakefield
After Adam Smith, Part Two
  • Frederic Bastiat on the Seen and Unseen
  • Frederic Bastiat and the Candlemakers’ Petition
  • John Stuart Mill, terms of trade
  • J.S. Mill on money and demand
  • Life of John Stuart Mil
  • Mill on Bentham
  • How the Dismal Science Got Its Name
  • Friedrich List
  • Cournot
  • Dupuit
  • Von Thunen
  • John Snow
Practical issues faced by the classical economists
  • Economists in Parliament
  • The debates over debt
  • Bullionist debates, Part I
  • Bullionist debates, Part II
  • Living standards during the Industrial Revolution
  • The Poor law debates
  • The Machinery question
  • The Irish Question
  • The Corn Law debates
  • Peel’s Act of 1844 and the Currency School
  • The India question

Course:Economics of the Media

Basic economics of media
Media bias
Media and government
Media and economic development
Exam

Course:Mexico's Economy: Current Prospects and History

An Overview of the Mexican Economy
Colonial Legacies: Obstacles to Growth after Independence
Development Strategies
Social Issues
Land & Agriculture
The Debt Crisis of the 1980s
The State Retreats: Reform in the 1980s & 1990s
The Peso Crisis
NAFTA & the Mexican Economy
Modern Mexico

Course:The American Housing Finance System

Basic mortgage arithmetic
Lowering the initial payment
Housing as an investment
Mortgage process part 1
Basic mortgage underwriting
Mortgage process part 2
Risk management part 1
Risk management part 2
Mortgage process part 3
Introduction to mortgage analytics
Modeling the default option
Modeling interest-rate risk
Varieties of mortgage securities
Risk Management at Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae
Private-label securities
Painful historical episodes & policy responses
  • The Great Depression
  • The S&L Crisis
  • The 2008 Financial Crisis
Policy Problems in Housing Finance
  • Special interests and housing finance policy
  • The impact of mortgage subsidies
  • 30 year fixed rate mortgages
  • Are the FHA and VA useful institutions?
  • Government involvement in the mortgage market
  • Other countries' housing finance systems