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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.

Syllabus

  • 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
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Timothy Taylor

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