Utilize economic thinking to illuminate a wide range of topics not typically understood to be economic in nature-from how we choose a mate to why we vote the way we do.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The World of Choices
- 02: A Market for Pregnancy
- 03: Selling a Kidney
- 04: Traffic Congestion-Costs, Pricing, and You
- 05: Two-Way Ties between Religion and Economics
- 06: Prediction Markets-Windows on the Future
- 07: Pathways for Crime and Crime Fighting
- 08: Terrorism as an Occupational Choice
- 09: Marriage as a Search Market
- 10: Procreation and Parenthood
- 11: Small Choices and Racial Discrimination
- 12: Cooperation and the Prisoner's Dilemma
- 13: Fairness and the Ultimatum Game
- 14: Myopic Preferences and Behavioral Economics
- 15: Altruism, Charity, and Gifts
- 16: Loss Aversion and Reference Point Bias
- 17: Risk and Uncertainty
- 18: Human Herds and Information Cascades
- 19: Addiction and Choice
- 20: Obesity-Who Bears the Costs?
- 21: The Economics of Natural Disasters
- 22: Sports Lessons-Pay, Performance, Tournaments
- 23: Voting, Money, and Politics
- 24: The Pursuit of Happiness
Taught by
Timothy Taylor
