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Introduction
Supply, Demand, and Equilibrium
Elasticity and Its Applications
Taxes and Subsidies
The Price System
Price Ceilings and Price Floors
Trade
Externalities
Costs and Profit Maximization Under Competition
Competition and the Invisible Hand
Monopoly
Price Discrimination
Labor Markets
Public Goods and the Tragedy of the Commons
Asymmetric Information
Consumer Choice
Bonus Topics
GDP
The Wealth of Nations and Economic Growth
Growth, Capital Accumulation, and the Economics of Ideas
Savings, Investment, and the Financial System
Personal Finance
Unemployment and Labor Force Participation
Inflation and Quantity Theory of Money
Business Fluctuations
Business Cycle Theories
Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve
Fiscal Policy
Investing
Don Boudreaux on Trade and Prosperity
Tyler Cowen on...
Various Topics
Tyler Cowen on American Culture and Innovation
Introduction
The Furious Five
- Randomized Trials
- Regression Analysis
- Instrumental Variables
- Instrumental Variables, Part Two
- Regression Discontinuity Designs
- Differences-in-Differences
Randomized Trials
Regression Analysis
Instrumental Variables
Regression Discontinuity Designs
Differences-in-Differences
A
C
E
F
J
L
M
P
R
S
W
X
Y
Z
Fiscal Policy
Monetary Policy
Geography and Development 1
Food and Agricultural Productivity
- Garlic (Optional)
- A tomato border crossing (Optional)
- Wheat, water, and Saudi Arabia (Optional)
- Yams, a man’s crop? (Optional)
- The Rice Price Spike of 2007-2008 (Optional)
- The Soy Boom (Optional)
- Malawi restricts trade in corn (Optional)
- The Clove Monopoly (Optional)
- Watermelon scale economies (Optional)
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
- India’s early growth history
- East India Company
- Land taxation in early India
- The deindustrialization of India
- Education in colonial India
- Railroads and colonial India
- Gandhi and the Salt March
- Did British rule help India?
- India since Independence
- India's toughest economic times
- India’s growth inflection
- India’s reforms of the 1990s
- Trade and poverty in India
- Agriculture in India
- Green Revolution
- Land reform in India
- Food crises and India’s media
- Power generation in India
- Foreign investment in India
- Competition from foreign retailers
- When in India, Get a Haircut
- Skyscrapers and Slums: What's Driving Mumbai's Housing Crisis?
- Rent Control in Mumbai
- No Considerations: Doing Business in India Without Bribes
- Bankruptcy law in India
- Labor market regulation
- India’s macroeconomic stability
- Castes and groundwater trade
- India’s air and water pollution
- Mobility in the caste system
- Corruption in driver’s licenses
- Lentils as incentive
- The Kerala Paradox
- The Rise of Private Education in India
- Testing for Cream Skimming in India
- Edward Luce on India
- India business profiles
- Service sector growth
- Frugal innovation for the heart
- The value of English
- Female leadership in India
- Cable TV and women
- The economics of Bollywood
- Amartya Sen #1
- Amartya Sen #2
- Amartya Sen #3
- Partha Dasgupta
- Jagdish N. Bhagwati
People (References/Optional)
- Elinor Ostrom
- Partha Dasgupta
- Paul Romer
- William Easterly
- Jeffrey Sachs
- Joseph Stiglitz
- Robert Townsend
- Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer
- Amartya Sen #1
- Amartya Sen #2
- Amartya Sen #3
- Paul Collier
- Dani Rodrik
- Daron Acemoglu
- Hernando de Soto
- Jeffrey Sachs | Conversations with Tyler
- Dani Rodrik | Conversations with Tyler
Episodes
- Elinor Ostrom
Introduction
The Power of Statistics (Coming Soon)
Random Control Trials (A/B Tests) (Coming Soon)
Analytical Approaches (Coming Soon)
Linear Regression
- Intro to Linear Regression
- Interpreting the Regression Line
- Outliers
- (Coming Soon) Standard Error, T-statistic, Statistical Significance
- (Coming Soon) P-Value
- (Coming Soon) R Squared
- (Coming Soon) Improving Your Regression Model
- (Coming Soon) Linear Regression: Common Pitfalls
Linear Regression 2 (Coming Soon)
Logistic Regression (Coming Soon)
Multiple Regression (Coming Soon)
Introduction to International Trade and Finance
Exchange Rates
Currency Issues
The Euro Crisis
- The Three Sides of the Crisis
- The Case for Optimism
- The Case for Pessimism
- European Central Bank
- The Bailout Funds
- Why are high bond yields a problem?
- The Italian Crisis of 2013
- The costs of leaving the Eurozone
- Remarks on individual countries
- Currency union collapse in history
- Indicators for Eurozone progress
- Life on the precipice
- Will austerity work?
- Effects on other multilateral agreements
- Optimum currency areas
- Optimum currency areas and the Euro
- Why is the Euro so bland?
- Tyler Cowen lecture at the Bruno Leoni Institute (Optional)
- Understanding the Eurocrisis (Optional)
- Iceland: Causes of the Crisis
- Iceland: Collapse
International Trade Overview
Crises and Responses to Them
Introduction to International Trade
International Trade and Trade Restrictions Part 1
International Trade and Trade Restrictions Part 2
International Trade and the Firm Part 1
International Trade and the Firm Part 2
International Trade and the Factors of Production
Consequences of International Trade Part 1
Consequences of International Trade Part 2
Before Adam Smith, Part 1
Before Adam Smith, Part 2
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations, Book One
Wealth of Nations, Book Two
Wealth of Nations, Book Three
Wealth of Nations, Book Four
Wealth of Nations, Book Five
After Adam Smith, Part One
After Adam Smith, Part Two
Practical issues faced by the classical economists
Friedrich A. Hayek’s Individualism and Economic Order
Background
Further analysis of the problems
Underlying theory
Basic economics of media
Media bias
Media and government
Media and economic development
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
NAFTA & the Mexican Economy
Introduction to Soviet Economic History
Marx's Labor Theory of Value
Planning to Plan
Marxist Utopianism
From Revolution to Planning
War Communism: Lessons for Leaders
The Retreat to Markets: The New Economic Policy
The New Economic Policy in Crisis
Stalinism and Alternatives
The Path to Stalinism and the Party Line
Stalin's Rise and The Tragedy of Collectivization
Basic mortgage arithmetic
Housing as an investment
Mortgage process part 2
Risk management part 1
Mortgage process part 3
Introduction to mortgage analytics
Modeling the default option
Risk Management at Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae
Painful historical episodes & policy responses
Principios de Microeconomía
- Curva de demanda
- Elasticidad-precio
- Controles de Precios
- Determinantes de la Elasticidad-precio
- Otras elasticidades
- Curva de indiferencia y curva de presupuesto
- Variaciones de ingreso
- Efecto-ingreso y efecto-sustitución
- Ley de rendimientos decrecientes
- Costos en el corto plazo
- Costos en el largo plazo
- Equilibrio de la Empresa en Competencia Perfecta
- Oferta y Demanda en Competencia Perfecta
- Efectos de un Impuesto sobre Ventas
- Impuestos sobre Importaciones (Protección Arancelaria)
- Monopolio Puro
- Equilibrio del Monopolista
- Regulación del Monopolio
- Discriminación de Precios
- Discriminación de Precios -- Tercer Caso
- Carteles
- Modelo de Firma Dominante
- Oligopolio
- Competencia Monopolística
- Competencia Monopolística (continuación)
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