Here are some recent syllabuses, and some handouts and notes I’ve used in my classes. If you teach economics, free to use any of these in your own classes.
Syllabus: Economics in Historical Perspective (undergraduate class, Spring 2024)
Syllabus: Alternative Perspectives on Money (graduate class, Fall 2023)
Notes
Productivity, employment and wages (fall 2024)
A guide to regressions (fall 2021)
Capital and capitalism (spring 2020)
Complete macroeconomics teaching notes, fall 2016
GDP – definitions, anomalies and the national income identity
productivity: two accounting identities
using the national income identity
causal relations in the macroeconomy
macroeconomic policy in an open economy (Fall 2015-2016)
schools of thought, policy targets
I just scanned your RKE article and will read it again when I have more time. I wish that I had your imagination and work ethic! Although only a lowly civil servant in Regina, Saskatchewan; I would like to do more research on the macroeconomics of R&D. I will write more later about this.
Chris
I did a paper on that topic while at Arizona State. The upshot was a 5:1 return on the money’s invested in research. That may still stand up if my observations of my employer (Intel) can be generalized to other industries.
Nice teaching documents! I’m a UMASS phd from long ago always looking for ways to provide clear and concise pieces of the puzzle. I enjoyed your recent article that was circulated in evonomics too! All the best,
Jonathan Diskin
These resources are great. Any chance you’ve got some brief narrative explanation to go with the macro map or maybe a legend? Really good stuff.
Just wanted to say thank you for compiling this database. It’s hard sometimes for people like me (young and going to an Austrian-centered school) to find material to learn from. I just find it hard sometimes to know where to look.
So, you have my gratitude,
-Just another recent graduate looking for more at the graduate level.
Thanks so much for these materials and your thoughtful discussion of rent control! Extremely helpful and very much appreciated.