Welcome ba/ec510 Students! The direct URL is tomlacey.com. This site is intended for use by my Schiller Business Economic students (BA/EC 510).  You can earn discussion/participation credit by writing your thoughts about what you read here. You can comment on the lectures or the articles. Sample questions are given at the end of each article.You can also write a review of other outside reading you are doing by posting it as a Discussion. 

Where to go to make a google site:

 

http://sites.google.com/site/sites/

 

(Sometimes there may be a cookie error when accessing Google Sites with IE 7. If you get this message try using Firefox 2 instead. Firefox also does spell checking.) 

Important: Administration says students not allowed to miss more than one class. We have to take attendance at the beginning of each class. 

 

To comment on the pages here, click on the Discuss this page tab at the very bottom of the relevant page.

 

Make a Google Account  Please click this link in order to be able to do more in this Google group.

 

To send group messages by email click here:  tomlacey@googlegroups.com  (this is for posting to group only), or go Discussion menu item on the right side of the screen.

 

To send me regular private email to professor use this address: thomasrlacey@gmail.com 

 

 

Academic/Class Calendar  Please see this for exam dates.  

 

Syllabus:   BA/EC 510        Purchasing Textbooks     Have one used book available for $45.

 

 Our Textbook Review Summaries and Online Student Practice Quizes (Fourth Edition).

 

Current Events

Explanation of the Financial Crisis as Pryamid

Class Lectures and Discussion Material

 

Lecture/Discussion #1  What is Economics?    What_is_Economics.pdf (3)

 

 Text Chp 1 Online Lecture

 

Lecture/Discussion #2   Assumptions and Methodology   Assumptions_and_Methodology.pdf

 

Text Chp. 2 Online Mini Lecture.   Text Chp. 3 Online Mini Lecture

 

Lecture/Discussion #3   Major Schools of Economic Theory with Comments  

 

Alternate Framework  Human Society and the Global Economy by Kit Sims Taylor  (An interesting online text)

 

Lecture/Discussion #4 Neoclassical Economic Theory  Plus see below a new article I have written.

http://sites.google.com/site/tomlaceyphd/theories-of-economic-value 

 

Text Chp 4 Online Min-Lecture   

 

Lecture/Discussion #5  Market Structure and Social Organization in the Information Age

 

Chapter 5 Mini-lecture Also look at the minilectures for Chapters 6, 7, and 8 on the same site and review textbook.

 

Quiz on Market Structure  Log on with your assigned user name and password (the one I emailed to you).

 

 Lecture/Discussion #6 Theories of pricing in different markets, factor and product markets

 

 Lecture/Discussion #7   Labor Markets, Human Captial, and Unions

 

Lecture/Discussion #8  Macroeconomics and Business Cycles

                                    Tim Geithner Video  http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/03/tim_geithner_on.html

Lecture/Discusssion #9    Investment, Wages, and Prices  Yearly Economic Data 1972-2007   Investment.doc   Investment2.doc

 

Lecture/Discusssion #10  Energy and the Environment  Article for Discussion: The Clean Energy Scam    Film: Why we can't grow new energy      National Geographic Green Page   Ozone Depletion

 

Lecture/Discussion #11  See this website called Global Issues and do the assignment below. 

 

Assignment...take on or two areas you are interested in, such as poverty, multinational corporations, drugs, global warming, international trade, etc. and present a summary of the issues and ideas presented in your own words. Also, say why you agree or disagree with the author's perspective. I would like everyone to write something and post it (do not copy from each other or cut and paste).

 

Lecture/Discussion #12   The effect of rising oil prices on the economic situation

 

Oil Price Rise Fails to Open Tap    Oil Speculators Push Up Prices   Effect of Gas Tax Cut

 

Movies worth watching:

 

The internet and open source economics:  Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics     Mortgage Meltdown  A PBS report on the mortgage crisis in Minneapolis

 

Lecture/Discussion #13  The Economics of War, Slavery, and Women's Status + Hedge Funds and SEC Regulation

 

Teen Baby Boom in a Mass. High School  Interesting Article: Explain the psychology.

 

Movie: Hedge Funds A PBS report on hedge fund misdeeds.

 

Movie: Child Brides and Female Slavery http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/341/video.html 

 

Movie: Sex Slaves in America http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/sex-slaves-in-america/8092048/

 

NPR Audio: Domestic Slaves in New York http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=11209468&m=11209469

 

New Class Topics

 

Health: The sociology of quitting smoking

 

Things to do: How about try to answer some of the lecture questions and post you answer/comment to this group?

                       

Learning About Economics 

Google Books on Economics: See Below

 http://books.google.com/books?q=+subject:"+Economics+"&as_brr=3&rview=1&source=gbs_hplp_nofict

 

Videos on Economics  A good way to jump-start your brain into "thinking like an economist."

 

Online Quizes  Test yourself on knowledge of economics.

 

Economic Methodology  A page of articles on economic methodology.

 

Current Affairs   Articles on Current Events and Issues.

 

General Economic Resources  A page of listing  other articles and links. 

Online texts on economics: http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=economics

Library Resources (info provided by the Librarian) 

 

Doing Research for Free    General Library Reference Material    Purchasing Textbooks

 

Writngs by Tom Lacey                                                                                                          

 

About me     Articles     Book Reviews    Essays                                

 

Recommended email program: gmail.com

 

Note: It is good to explore new computer technology such as Gmail and Google Documents and Google Groups. These are skills that will benefit you just like being able to use Microsoft Word and Excel.

 

To Make a New Post to Discussion Group by Email: tomlacey@googlegroups.com

 

 

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