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Politics and Economics:
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A good deal of every Econ 1 course is aimed at making you better citizens: better-informed voters as you go to the polls and choose the civil servants who as they administer our government make the economic policy decisions that are roughly half of what our government does.
But Econ 1 courses are inevitably too concerned with theory, and not enough concerned with practice. Hence I am very grateful that our own Professor Christina Romer, newly back here at Berkeley from two years in Washington DC serving as President Barack Obama's chief economist in the cabinet-level appointment of Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, has agreed to join us today to tell us about how the rubber met the road on the macroeconomic side over the past two years.
Are you worried that you do not know enough--having only taken Econ 1--to do your job as voters judging economic policies?
Don't be.
I think that one of Christie Romer's predecessors as CEA Chair, Stanford economist and Republican Mike Boskin, says it best. Being Chair of the CEA and advising all the political appointees in the White House is, he says, a lot like teaching Econ 1 at Stanford. Only at Stanford your students do their reading, pay attention, and ask deeper and more thoughtful questions.
Therefore let us welcome the Honorable Christina D. Romer, former Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors and National Economic Council Principal. Her topic is: "Fiscal Policy in the Obama White House: Reasoning, Results, and Challenges Going Forward”
And yes, there will be a question about her talk on the final exam...
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Former Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisors and National Economic Council Principal Chistina D. Romer: "Fiscal Policy in the Obama White House: Reasoning, Results, and Challenges Going Forward”
Yes, there will be a question about her talk on the final exam...
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Information Goods and Inequality:
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Presentation Articles for Weeks of November 22 and November 29:
Timothy Jost: "Implementing Health Reform: Emerging Guidance on Insurance Exchanges" http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2010/11/19/implementing-health-reform-emerging-guidance-on-insurance-exchanges/
Report of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, pp. 7-18 http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/documents/rapport_anglais.pdf
Partha Dasgupta: Comments on the Stern Review http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/dasgupta/STERN.pdf
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August 30: Introduction to Macroeconomics: Audio | Slides | Notes
September 1: Introduction to Depression Economics: Audio | Slides | Notes
Articles for Section Oral Presentations: Sections 5-8
Problem Set 1 (due September 15)
September 8: Downturns and Financial Markets: Keynesians and Monetarists: Audio | Slides | Notes
September 13: Dealing with the "Great Recession": Audio | Slides | Notes
September 15: Inflation Economics: Audio | Slides | Notes
September 20: Inflation Economics II: http://delong.typepad.com/econ_1_fall_2010/2010/09/files-for-september-20-econ-1-lecture-inflation-economics-ii-j-bradford-delong-uc-berkeley-fall-2010.html
September 22: Budget Economics: http://delong.typepad.com/econ_1_fall_2010/2010/09/files-for-september-22-econ-1-lecture-budget-economics.html
September 27: Budget Economics II:
September 29: Growth Economics: Background:
October 1: Pre-Midterm Review Session: http://delong.typepad.com/econ_1_fall_2010/2010/10/econ-1-pre-october-4-2010-midterm-review-session.html
October 6: Economic Growth II:
October 11: Introduction to Microeconomics:
October 13: Fundamentals of Supply and Demand:
October 18: Working with Supply and Demand:
October 20: Short Run and Long Run:
October 25: General Equilibrium:
October 27: Monopoly:
Monopolistic Competition:
Files for November 3 Lecture: Monopolistic Competition:
Solutions for Sample Midterm 2, and for Problem Sets 4, 5, and 6:
Files for November 10 "Externalities" Lecture:
November 15 "Public Goods and Asymmetric Information":
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