·        Syllabus for Principles of Macroeconomics  (ECON 2410 Honors)— Fall 2020

 

Economics is a great major

·        Google ngrams shows that Economics is the oldest and most prominent social science

·        Why consider economics as a major? [from Dr. Jason DeBacker]

·        Why consider economics as a major?  [from Santa Clara University]

·        Advice on courses to take to prepare for a PhD in Economics (my advice)

·        Advice on applying to a PhD program in Economics (from former MTSU student)

 

MTSU links

·        MTSU Honors College

·        Search MTSU with Google  (the best way to find what you need on MTSU webpages)

·         MTSU Business Lab

·         MTSU Library

·        Financial Aid

·        IGNITE career development program

 

Data analysis examples (using R and knitr)

·        Expected salary by college major

·        Some macroeconomic time series

·        Income distribution in the US

·        Employment and wage changes

 

Labor Force and Population

·        Population Pyramids for the World

·        Expected salary by college major

·        Potential for capital substituted for labor (original link)

·        Spreadsheet for U.S. Occupations-Spring 2016

·        Spreadsheet for U.S. Occupations-Spring 2001  

·        BLS Occupation/Wage List

 

Macroeconomic Measures

·        Macro data from the St. Louis Fed

·        Gapminder.org charts of international data

·        Real per capita GDP by country (2010)

·        Freedom indices

·        Some macroeconomic time series

·        Consumer Price Index

·        Alternative Price Index (from MIT)

·        Expenditure Shares of U.S. Consumers

·        Fed Districts

·        Worst episode of hyperinflation in history

 

Economics blogs and podcasts

·        Real Time Economics (from the WSJ)

·        List of blogs and podcasts from the American Economic Association

·        Planet Money podcasts organized by principles of economics topics

·        List of top blogs from Inomics

·        List of top podcasts from Inomics

 

Readings on group size

·        Robin Dunbar's magic number of 150

·         Measuring the size of social networks

·        George A. Miller's Seven plus or minus two. 

·         Joseph B. Birdsell on the 'Z-tribe' (JSTOR stable link)

 

Odds and Ends

·        Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It

·        Istanbul McDonald’s

·        London June 2017

·        Real Housewives of Wall Street

·        See China grow (also this)

·        List and description of American political parties

·        Scale assessing the harmfulness of recreational drugs

·        Another harmfulness scale

·        Nashville area elementary school quality

·        Quality 'tiers' for Tennessee high school supply regions