• Syllabus for Principles of Microeconomics Summer 2019: (July 8 – August 8)

Economics at MTSU

• 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)
• Economics Accelerated Bachelor to Master Degree (ABM)

MTSU important links

• IGNITE career development program
• MTSU Honors College
• Search MTSU with Google (the best way to find what you need on MTSU webpages)
• MTSU Business Lab / MTSU Library
• "Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It"
• Tennessee Lottery Scholarships
• Tutoring at MTSU

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

Podcasts related to economics

· Planet Money podcasts organized by principles of economics topics

Economics blogs

• Real Time Economics (from the WSJ)
• List of blogs from the American Economic Association
• EconAcademics - reports on current research
• David Warsh’s Economic Principals
• Freakonomics (econometrics can explain anything)

Best Starting Places for Economics on the Internet

• Resources for Economists on the Internet

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

Readings on group size

• George A. Miller's Seven plus or minus two.
• Joseph B. Birdsell on the 'Z-tribe' (JSTOR stable link)
• Robin Dunbar's magic number of 150
• Measuring the size of social networks

Odds and Ends

• 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