Curricula and Syllabi in Other topics
Communicating Economics is a first-year undergraduate module which helps students critically evaluate economic arguments and communicate economic ideas clearly to specialist and non-specialist audiences. Organised around five perspectives—economics as science, literature, politics, history and philosophy—the module explores how economists use evidence, language and storytelling to inform and persuade. This index includes the syllabus with suggested readings, six tutorial plans setting out practical activities, and an assessment strategy with six example tasks.
Materials from a Fall 2020 course, open to undergraduates and graduates, exploring microeconomic, macroeconomic, and long-term effects of the pandemic. Scroll down to get the class handouts, reading list and syllabus.
This is the website for a course on behavioural economics as taught as an advanced course at masters level by the University of Oslo since 2006. It includes details of the syllabus / reading list, assessment methods, lecture handouts and economic problems to be discussed in the seminars. Specific topics covered by the course include behavioral decision theory, time inconsistency and self-control, social preferences and fairness.
This is a syllabus for a behavioural economics course as taught by Professor P.J. Healy of Carnegie Mellon in 2006. It includes information on the course structure, assessments and topics. It also features a short article on Defining Behavioral Economics: History and A Parable, that explores the origins of the subject.
