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What I Study
(Oh Yeah, I do that too...) |
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The Economic Sciences |
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Medieval History |
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Much to your chagrin, I do go to a University to in fact study. My fourth year of instruction begins sometime in late August and thus I will resume my progress towards a Bachelor's Degree in Economics and History from UC Berkeley's College of Letters and Sciences with a newly created Minor in Medieval Studies. Living with engineers and chemists and molecular biologists (or so they profess to be) I am asked frequently, why I choose to study a social science, as if the sciences do not interest me. They do. Very much so. I thought I would be majoring in Chemistry by my Junior year of High school. I'll ask my Chem friends "Have you done Le Chatelier's Principle?" and they'll say "How do you know that?". The same way I'll fix a computer and be asked "Oh, are you must be a CS major" In other words my academic interests are many. However I've chosen to focus my efforts on Economics and History. So let me explain. |
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"True Knowledge is admitting that you don't know everything"
-Aristotle |
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Courses This Fall (2001) |
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| History 103: Proseminar in History |
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History 185A: History of Christianity - Beginnings to AD 1250
Professor Susanna Elm |
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Economics 140: Econometrics
Professor Paul Ruud |
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The Economic Sciences |
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Statistics 155: Game Theory
Professor Yuval Peres |
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The study of economics is not the study of how to make money. It is the study of scarcity. It is the science of how to allocate our finite resources. Far from being a dismal science, it is highly relevant today. I firmly believe that alot of failures that takes place in our society, be it city planning or political actions spawn from poor economic decisions. People always fail to see the long term benefits of tax legislation or investments. Another example is that importing deprives local businesses of profits, an argument that, with the proper knowledge of economic theory, will crumble as the benefits of such trade are enormous.
So what in Economics do I study? I tend to favor Macroeconomics over Microeconomics although I feel myself to be proficient in both. I've recently studied MIT economist Robert Solow's model of growth that says that countries grow as they accumulate capital, which as data has shown, makes sense in most cases. Robert Mundell, the most recent Nobel Prize winning economist, is recognized for his Open Economy model of Aggregate Demand, which incoporates exchange rates into the equilibrium equation that gives us our level of output or GDP. Continued... |
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Coming Soon: Chronological Schedule for
Fall 2001 (.rtf) |
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