Monthly Archives: August 2009

Lecture Notes on Social Choice Theory

Posted on 2009/08/29 by Dimitrios Diamantaras

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: … Continue reading →

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Dan Pink on Motivation

Posted on 2009/08/27 by Dimitrios Diamantaras

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).

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An essay on health care reform

Posted on 2009/08/22 by Dimitrios Diamantaras

Via Greg Mankiw’s blog, this long and thoughtful essay discusses the troubles that the perverted incentives of the US health insurance system cause.

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Excellent undergraduate micro course

Posted on 2009/08/17 by Dimitrios Diamantaras

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 … Continue reading →

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