Teaching

Hi, and welcome to Econ 1101, Fall 2009.

I will have some important announcements in here as well as eventual Homeworks, Handouts and class materials. This course will be taught using the teaching service provided by aplia.com system, please follow these instructions to register (students are recomended to buy the aplia package at our Bookstore, the package includes a book and the access code). For more information, read our Syllabus.

For those already familiar with Aplia.com, here is our Course Key: RR9Z-B6VT-KQQG.

Our class is located at Blegen Hall 255 we meet 05:30 P.M. - 08:00 P.M. , Wednesdays. If you find errors in this page please let me know (@ renes@umn.edu).

Important files/information:

PROBLEM SET 7 - Group Project - with FAQ (Last Modified on 2009/11/10 08:28:50)
our Schedule (Last Modified on 2009/10/14 11:53:04)
our Syllabus

Announcements

Last Modified on 2009/11/24 11:13:06

Uploaded a Handout for Chapter 13, you can print it to bring to next class, the slides are also available.
the list of topics has been updated here.
I have posted some material that could be used for preparing for midterm 2. You will find question about elasticy on: Old_homework02.pdf and Oldmidterm01.pdf, there are more questions on: pareto02.pdf and old_homework6.pdf. Note that the content for Midterm 2 is mostly focused on the content taught from October 14th (there was no content/class on that day) until now.
1. A note on Old_homework6.pdf. Read MPC as Marginal Private Cost, or just Private Cost, and MSC as Marginal Social Cost or just Social Cost, MSB is marginal social benefit and so on. Remember that the socially optimal quantity, Qeff, solves MSC=MSB.
Very nice news regarding global trade. Check it out from BBC News, here, and here, and even more here.
Posted a handout, Pareto2.pdf and notes (slides externality.ppt).
I need to cancel this Monday(19th oct) office hours, if this affects your plans in any way let me know by email
We will have another experiment session, this time in class, on November 11th. It will start at 5:30pm (during class time), if you have a laptop bring it to class so that you can participate online. Otherwise, don't come to class, instead go to any computer lab nearby Blegen Hall, log into your aplia.com to participate. After the experiment is over, I will wait from 5-10 minutes to start a regular lecture.
I have added more practice exercises to aplia.com. These exercises are all based on Mankiw's test bank, they should be very closely related to the book. I have added all of Mankiw's available problem sets as practice. To find it click on "View All Assignments", then click on WEEK 15 (December 14th). They are separated in Chapters and Sections.
I have added answer keys for the old midterm and homework.
I have added more documents that may be helpful for your study (it's the list_of_topics you can find under Material bellow.
I have added some old material that might be relevant for your preparation for the incoming midterm. Please use the material at your own discretion, I make a disclaimer that that course used a different book and not all material overlap with our own. Also that course did not had Aplia.com homeworks. The old homework contains a question that quotes an article, you can find the article bellow (under suggested reading).
Our first quiz is here and we also have an answer key .
The Economics Student Association is offering free tutoring sessions on Thursdays 3:00pm to 5:00pm in Blegen 110, more info here: ESO free tutoring.
Jan Duras office hours are Mondays 9-11am, more info on his webpage.
For our first class, try to read Chapters 1, Chapter 2 sections regarding Production Possibilities frontier and Positive versus Normative Analysis
Please, remember to register with Aplia (aplia.com). Registration is required for this course. More information above, homeworks and other announcements will be mostly available there, in our course page within aplia.com.
To register in this course read this registration info, our course key is: RR9Z-B6VT-KQQG.
Read our Syllabus: PDF or html