| Fall Term |
Winter Term |
| Lecture 01:
Introduction, Incentives, and Rationality |
Lecture 01:
Externalities, Coase, and Market Failures |
| Lecture 02a:
Economics as a Science; Positive
vs. Normative Statments |
Lecture 02:
Pollution and Dr.
Pangloss |
| Lecture 02b:
Scarcity and Choice: Who Gets
the Goodies? Production Possbilities |
Lecture 03a:
Pollution Policies
Lecture 03b: Economic Role of
Gubmnt |
| Lecture 03:
Opportunity Costs and
Trade-Offs |
Lecture 04:
Introduction to Inflation |
Lecture 04a:
Utility, Opportunity Costs,
and Demand
(with apologies for not recording the first ten minutes
of the lecture) |
Lecture 05a:
Measuring the Rate of Inflation
Lecture 05b: Measuring
the Unemployment Rate
(low volume due to not using an external microphone) |
| Lecture 04b:
Demand, Consumer
Surplus, and Elasticities |
Lecture 06:
Job Search and
Expectations |
| Lecture 05:
Elasticities, Budget
Lines, and Indifference Curves |
Lecture 07a:
Introduction to
Phillips Curves
Lecture 07b: Shifting the LR
Phillips Curves |
| Lecture 06a:
Budget Lines and Indifference
Curves |
Lecture 08:
Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply |
| Lecture 06b:
Deriving Demand Curves from
Indifference Maps |
Lecture 09: AD, AS,
and SNKM |
| Lecture 07:
Deriving Market Demand; Introduction to
Supply |
Lecture 10:
National Income Accounting |
| Lecture 08a:
Supply and Demand Simulation -- the
Baseball Game |
Lecture 11a:
What is Money?
Lecture 11b:
Multiple Expansion of Deposits |
| Lecture 08b:
Supply and Demand -- Debriefing the
Game (It seems that we need a volunteer to remind me to
turn on the recorder before I begin the 2nd half of each 2-hour lecture) |
Lecture 12:
Fractional Reserve
Banking in Canada |
| Lecture 09:
Putting Supply and Demand
Together |
Lecture 13: Oops; unavailable |
| Lecture 10a:
Supply and Demand Applications,
#1 |
Lecture 14:
Tools of Monetary Policy,
cont'd. |
| Lecture 10b:
Supply and Demand Applications, #2 |
Lecture 15a:
The Quantity Theory of Money |
| Lecture 11:
Even More Supply and
Demand Applications (but it looks as if the battery died near the
end of the lecture.) |
Lecture 15b:
The Monetary Mechanism;
intro to Fiscal Policy |
|
Two-hour Pre-Exam Question &
Answer Session [Large File!] |
Lecture 16: Let's Get
Fiscal! |
| Lecture 12: Oops. I forgot to take the recorder to campus
to today. Apologies to all. |
Lecture 17a:
Money/Macro Policy I
Lecture 17b: Money/Macro Policy
II |
| Lecture 13a:
Production
and Costs |
Lecture 18:
Macro Questions and Answers |
| Lecture 13b:
Costs,
Revenues, and Profit Maximization |
Lecture 18a:
Introduction to
Comparative Advantage |
| Lecture 14:
Marginal Costs and Supply |
Lecture 18b:
Trade in the 2x2 model,
illustrated with S&D |
| Lecture 15a:
Long-Run Costs and Planning
Decisions |
Lecture 19:
Trade, Prodn
Possibilities, Lumber |
| Lecture 15b:
Long-Run Competitive
Equilibrium |
Lecture 20a:
Trade Policy, part I
Lecture 20b: oops |
| Lecture 16:
License Fees (not much
here -- the battery died early in the lecture) |
Lecture 21: Trade
Quiz and Policy |
| Lecture 17a:
Monopoly and Price-searching Behaviour |
Lecture 22a:
Trade Facts and Perceptions |
| Lecture 17b:
Price Discrimination
(and being mistaken for a senior citizen?) |
Lecture 22b:
Trade; Intro to Exchange Rates |
| Lecture 18:
Speculation and Risk |
Lecture 23: Exchange
Rates, PPP |
| Lecture 18a:
Extra Session |
Lecture 24:
Interest Rate Parity |
| Lecture 19a:
Intro to the Prisoners' Dilemma |
Lecture 25:
Balance of Payments |
| Lecture 19b:
Intro to Duopoly |
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| Lecture 20:
Oh-Lee-Go-Pole-Lee and the Prisoners' Dilemma |
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| Lecture 21a:
What, if anything, Is
Wrong with Monopoly? |
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| Lecture 21b:
What Remedies are possible
for Monopoly? |
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| Lecture 22: Natural Monopoly. If you think I'm posting
that podcast, you're crazier than a York grad. |
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| Lecture 23a:
Profit, Net Revenues, Risk |
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| Lecture 23b:
Interest Rates and Net
Present Values |
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| Lecture 24:
Interest, Investment and
the Fisher Equation |
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| Lecture 25a:
Labour-Leisure Trade-off;
MRP and MFC; Negative Income Taxes |
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| Lecture 25b:
Lorenz Curves, Gini
Co-efficients, Distributions |
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