ECO 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Field Trip, Market Failure, Efficient-Market Hypothesis
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Professor: stephen holland office: 465 bryan building, phone: 334-4925 email: sphollan@uncg. edu office hours: wed. 10-12am or by appointment or open door. Course description: this course applies the tools of economics to analyze questions about natural resource usage and the environment. You will learn the concepts through: writing, working problems, manipulating models, playing games, doing mathematics, drawing graphs, describing economic processes, graphing with ms excel, and researching current policies on the internet. We plan to take two field trips: one to a power plant and another to the local land fill. Course time and location: tuesday and thursday 9:30-10:45 in bryan 111. Texts: the text for this course is environmental and natural resource economics, by frank. I also recommend that you regularly read the following blogs related to environmental economics: http://greeninc. blogs. nytimes. com/; http://belfercenter. ksg. harvard. edu/analysis/stavins/; http://greeneconomics. blogspot. com/; http://economix. blogs. nytimes. com/; and http://gregmankiw. blogspot. com/. Course website: all course materials will be posted to: http://blackboard. uncg. edu/. Important dates: midterm exam in class on thursday, october 9.
