macroeconomics

• Syllabus for Fall 2023

1 Know this for the first quiz

• What is Economics?
  
• Types of Economies

2 Economics is a great major

• Latest Department of Economics and Finance Newsletter
  
• Economics is the most prominent social science (from Google ngrams)
  
• Why consider economics as a major? from Dr Jason DeBacker
  
• Yet more reasons for considering 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)

3 Useful MTSU links

• MTSU Honors College
  
• Search MTSU with Google
  
• MTSU Business Lab
  
• MTSU Library
  
• Financial Aid
• IGNITE career development program

4 Economic data

• College majors and their labor market outcomes
  
• Some macroeconomic time series
  
• Income distribution in the US
  
• Employment and wage changes
  
• Population Pyramids for the World
  
• Potential for capital substituted for labor
  
• Spreadsheet for U.S. Occupations - 2001
  
• Spreadsheet for U.S. Occupations - May 2019
  
• BLS Occupation/Wage List
  
• Time series data from the St Louis Fed
  
• Gapminder.org charts of international data
• World Inequality Database
• Real per capita GDP by country (2010)
  
• Freedom indices
  
• Consumer Price Index
  
• Alternative Price Index (from MIT)
  
• Expenditure Shares of U.S. Consumers
• Tax Foundation state tax maps

5 Sortable country-level table for standard of living

6 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

7 Odds and ends

• Crime in Nashville
  
• Book recommendations
• Fed Districts
  
• Worst episode of hyperinflation in history
  
• Robin Dunbars magic number of 150
  
• Measuring the size of social networks
  
• George A. Millers Seven plus or minus two .
  
• Joseph B. Birdsell on the Z-tribe (JSTOR stable link)
  
• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
  
• Istanbul McDonalds
  
• London June 2017
  
• Real Housewives of Wall Street
  
• See China grow
  
• 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
  
• Two ladies selling eggs