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Principles
of Microeconomics 1101 Lecture 44 Spring
Semester – 2008 Lecture:
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Thursday, BlegH 335 Office hours: Monday
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Announcements:
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Final Exam: Thursday, May 15, 5:30-7:30 pm in class. Click here for more information
about the final exam. 2.
This Thursday guest lecturer Christos
Ioannou will give his lecture on “De Beers
Monopoly”. Lecture slides are posted below. 3.
Lecture slides: “Income and Consumption Inequality”. If you want to learn more about inequality, see the
supplementary readings below. |
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Homework assignments: |
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Guest lectures: Juan’s
lecture: Telephone monopoly in Jacek’s
lecture: Game Theory and Cold War Murat’s
lecture: Comparative Advantage of Turkey in International Trade Jarek’s
lecture: Market Mechanism to Curb Pollution. (If you are
interested in this topic and seek additional material to learn more about it,
there is more stuff on Jarek’s
website.) Christos’ lecture: De Beers Monopoly |
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Economics in the news: An article from NY times on
inequality An
article by Dirk Krueger and Fabrizio Perri on consumption equality Tax
incidence: lessons from Price
controls: lessons from Price
controls and subsidies: lessons
from |