- Office hours: Thursdays 2:10-4 in Evans 608-3 and by appointment.
- Email: [email protected]
- In my experience, email is useful for answering administrative questions and for setting up meeting times. But it not ideal for interaction about the material - it's much better if you ask questions in section or office hours so that we can have some back and forth.
- Attendance at the first section is mandatory. Those who do not show up risk being dropped from the course.
- Section Grade: This will be 10 percent of your overall grade. It will be entirely determined by weekly quizzes. These will consist of one short question on the previous weeks' readings, with the goal of encouraging you to keep up with the readings - something you will be glad you did when exams approach. The first section's quiz (8/31) will not be graded, and when computing your final section grade, I will drop your two lowest quiz scores. Thus one or two absences will not harm your section grade.
- Role of section: My role will be to help you better understand the material in the readings and lecture. You should see section as a chance to ask about anything in the readings or lecture that confused you. Indeed, sections will work much better if you ask lots of questions. Almost always more than one student has the same question, so asking questions tends to benefit not only you, but also other students. My hope is that we will have many lively discussions. I may at times express my own point of view about an argument or article. I encourage all of you to actively disagree and argue with me. The point of section is not to convince you of one point of view, but to help you think about the material in new ways.
- About me: I'm grew up in Wisconsin, and then went to Swarthmore College. After college, I spent two years as a research assistant at the Federal Reserve in Washington - this was back when working at the Federal Reserve was a routine, 9-5 job. Currently, I'm a 3rd year in the economics department Ph.D. program. This year I start writing my dissertation, which I'm hoping will be at the intersection of economic history and macro.
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- Roderick Long: Those Who Control the Past Control the Future
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J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics at U.C Berkeley, a Research Associate of the NBER, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Chair of Berkeley's Political Economy major.
Among his best works are: "Is Increased Price Flexibility Stabilizing?" "Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare," "Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets," "Equipment Investment and Economic Growth," "Princes and Merchants: European City Growth Before the Industrial Revolution," "Why Does the Stock Market Fluctuate?" "Keynesianism, Pennsylvania-Avenue Style," "America's Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s," "American Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of the Great Depression," "Review of Robert Skidelsky (2000), John Maynard Keynes, volume 3, Fighting for Britain," "Between Meltdown and Moral Hazard: Clinton Administration International Monetary and Financial Policy," "Productivity Growth in the 2000s," "Asset Returns and Economic Growth."
- Leigh Speakers' Bureau:
The Eighteen-Year-Old is going to college next year, which means that I need to think about making more money. (The idea that one might write checks to rather than receive checks from universities is now strange to me.) So I have signed up with the Leigh Speakers' Bureau which also handles, among many others: Chris Anderson; Suzanne Berger; Michael Boskin; Kenneth Courtis; Clive Crook; Bill Emmott; Robert H. Frank; William Goetzmann; Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin; Paul Krugman; Bill McKibben; Paul Romer; Jeffrey Sachs; Robert Shiller;James Surowiecki; Martin Wolf; Adrian Wooldridge.