http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:32:37 PDT Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:32:37 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555910 During the last fifteen years, nations across the globe embarked on a historic transformation away from centrally planned economies to market-oriented ones. However, in the common pursuit for economic growth, these transition countries implemented widely different reform strategies with mixed results. With over a decade of empirical evidence now available, this new course examines this phenomenon that has pushed the discourse in a number of disciplines, requiring us to reconsider fundamental issues such as: the proper relationship between business, government, and the public interest the possible synergies and tensions between economic growth and equity how economic transition has reshaped cities The premise of the course is that the core issue in transition involves institution-building and re-building in different contexts. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=556001 This course uses theoretical models and studies of "old economy" industries to help understand the growth and future of electronic commerce. We will begin with a discussion of relevant topics from industrial organization including monopoly pricing, price discrimination, product differentiation, barriers to entry, network externalities, search and first-mover advantages. The largest part of the course will be a discussion of a number of e-industries. In this section we'll discuss extensions and applications of the ideas from the first part of the course, draw analogies to previous technological revolutions and read current case studies. Finally, we'll discuss two additional topics: bubbles in asset markets and the macroeconomic effects of the Internet. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555766 This course gives a historical perspective on financial panics. Topics include the growth of the industrial world, the Great Depression and surrounding events, and more recent topics such as the first oil crisis, Japanese stagnation, and conditions following the financial crisis of 2008. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555611 This course examines the implications of economic theories for social and political organization in the context of the historical evolution of industrial societies. Among the authors whose theories will be discussed are Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Joseph Schumpeter, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Emphasis will be placed on class discussion of specific texts. Students will be encouraged to ground their views in concrete textual and empirical material and to consider the implications of different arguments for the understanding of personal, political, and economic events today. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555691 This course is a survey of world economic history, and it introduces economics students to the subject matter and methodology of economic history. It is designed to expand the range of empirical settings in students' research by drawing upon historical material and long-run data. Topics are chosen to show a wide variety of historical experience and illuminate the process of industrialization. The emphasis will be on questions related to labor markets and economic growth. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=556030 This course offers a comprehensive survey of world economic history, designed to introduce economics graduate students to the subject matter and methodology of economic history. Topics are chosen to show a wide variety of historical experience and illuminate the process of industrialization. A final term paper is due at the end of the course. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=661609 This is a free online course offered in a series of podcasts. The topic is the History of American Economics. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555901 Course HighlightsIn comparison with History of Economic Theory that pursues changes of economic theories as a leraning , History of Economic Thought assumes the roles to relativize concepts that constitute the foundation of the analysis of economics through uncovering people's way of thinking embedded in their customs, behabiors and systems, i.e., researches into the study of economic history, and, by extension, to be capable to seek reconsiderations of fundamental perspectives concerning economics per se. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=555721 Course HighlightsWith an objective to redraw the modern/contemporary history of Japan from the viewpoint of âeconomicsâ, Contemporary Economic History of Japan â¡, following â , addresses the chronicle that ranges from the economic regime in World War â¡period, through the postwar years of reforms and reconstructions, and to the stage proceeding toward the high economic growth. Economic activities and their statuses constitute significant parameters to put social conditions in motion on a grand scale, and even change social systems and politics. Let us review relationships between the transactions and sociopolitical dynamism in the Japanese modern/contemporary time-line. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=620093 The history of economic thought represents a wide diversity of theories within the discipline, but all economists address these three basic questions: what to produce, how to produce it, and for whom. The student will learn that without a clear sense of the discussions and debates that took place among economists of the past, the modern economist lacks a complete perspective. By examining the history of economic thought, the student will be able to categorize and classify thoughts and ideas and will begin to understand how to think like an economist. This free course may be completed online at any time. See course site for detailed overview and learning outcomes. (Economics 301)