Lecture Notes on Social Choice Theory
I am putting here a deck of Beamer slides that I made for my graduate microeconomics class at Temple University. I will be posting more as I deem the slide decks acceptable. It may take a while... Here it is: Micro-II-lecture-1
Dan Pink on Motivation
Here is a TED talk about the importance of intrinsic motivation for business. Thoroughly enjoyable, and it gives a good challenge to mechanism design theorists and economists in general. (Via www.economistsdoitwithmodels.com).
An essay on health care reform
Via Greg Mankiw's blog, this long and thoughtful essay discusses the troubles that the perverted incentives of the US health insurance system cause.
Excellent undergraduate micro course
Jeff Ely at Northwestern University has an excellent page with notes on his undergraduate microeconomics course. (The whole blog in which this appears, Cheap Talk, is very interesting, and you can find a link to it in my blogroll on the right.) As the fall semester approaches, I find myself quite drawn to this, as it is a good background reference for the graduate micro class I teach, as well as a nice plan for a microeconomics course that would engage undergraduate students without math overload and without the slavish devotion to markets that too many microeconomics courses exhibit.