If not yet, I hope to encourage you whilst you study economics to become avid readers of blogs written by economists. After all, this is one of them. They are a great resource - they make available to you high profile economists in real time, as you get their reflections on every day events. This is a really important aspect of learning to think like an economist.
One really intriguing development has recently been announced by Marginal Revolution, a very popular blog - Marginal Revolution University, or MRUniversity as they seem to be dubbing it. The blog post introducing it is here, and the website to get more information about it is www.MRUniversity.com.
They plan to offer courses freely online it appears, and in formats that are not prohibitively costly to access (e.g. data plans on mobile phone contracts).
Well worth keeping an eye on - it's always good to get as much good tuition as possible, and one thing is quite sure about this initiative is that it will provide high quality tuition.
This blog accompanies the econ101ab Principles of Economics course given at the University of Birmingham. The lecturers for both parts of the course (101a, microeconomics and 101b, macroeconomics) will occasionally post here on matters related to lecture material. We hope to show the relevance of the concepts we are teaching at each stage of the course for helping understand how the world works...
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Thursday, September 6, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Results Day!
Today is the big day for many prospective econ101b students for 2012-13, so wishing you all the very best as you get your results today and digest them! Hope to see many of you in the lecture halls of the University of Birmingham next academic year!
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Welcome to Birmingham!
The new term and academic year is upon us. If you are just arriving at Birmingham for the first time, welcome! If you're returning, welcome back!
This blog is something I've set up for the part of econ101ab (Principles of Economics), an introductory economics course at the University of Birmingham. I teach the second part ("b"), which is macroeconomics. In the coming term before Christmas you'll have lectures from Martin Jensen on microeconomics.
If you're unsure of the difference between the two, PJ O'Rourke has helpfully obliged with a definition:
This blog is something I've set up for the part of econ101ab (Principles of Economics), an introductory economics course at the University of Birmingham. I teach the second part ("b"), which is macroeconomics. In the coming term before Christmas you'll have lectures from Martin Jensen on microeconomics.
If you're unsure of the difference between the two, PJ O'Rourke has helpfully obliged with a definition:
One thing that economists do know is that the study of economics is divided into two fields, "microeconomics" and "macroeconomics". Micro is the study of individual behaviour, and macro is the study of how economics behave as a whole. That is, microeconomics concerns things that economists are specifically wrong about, while macroeconomics concerns things economists are wrong about generally.
Enjoy microeconomics this term!
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