All apologies for the confusion on the marking for the course, it was my mistake in the last lecture....  As per the course outline, students will be assessed based on their performance in the final exam, their presentations, and their blogs.

12:30 Make sure to bring a calculator as well as your usual exam materials.

Lecture Notes here Slides here Programs here

Presentations will be held next Tuesday, in S110 at the following times: 12--1 Groups 2 and 3 5--6.30 Groups 1, 4, and 5.  Powerpoint presentations must be emailed to me by next Tuesday at 10am.

Handout is here Slides are here Programs are here For next time: Read Lachman, The Role of Expectations in Economics as a Social Science.  (Jstor Link, you have to be in college to open and download it).

Because of room availability and your other project commitments, we will not be holding presentations next week....  I'll have more details on rooms, etc, in the lecture on Monday.

Prof. Donovan will give an hour's lecture on April 16....  Right click the link to download.

Taking into account the positive, the negative, the direct and the indirect effects, the most up-to-date empirical research suggests that globalisation has a small overall effect on output and employment in the US, that is just as likely to be favourable as being unfavourable, depending on the time period and the countries considered.  The paper highlights the pioneering contribution of Freeman (2005), which suggests that even if trade with the South has not previously disadvantaged North workers, the doubling of the global labour force with India and China’s recent integration with the international economy may have profoundly unfavourable repercussions for AC workers.

Please write a 600/700 word chapter summary of chapter 4: Government Money with Portfolio Choice, by next Tuesday, and post the summaries on your blogs....  The following from Godley/Lavoie is examinable: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and lecture notes/exercises.

Here are the lecture notes for next Monday's lecture, along with slides and the programs I'll use.  Problems will be handed out in class.

The Review of Polictical Economy, 2006 [Download this version of the paper]

Abstract We describe the dependence of web services on the pre and post conditions that trigger their use in on-line B2B and B2C transactions....  Our result is that, once many web services are chained together, this dependence on different and increasingly complex triggers will produce a decay in the number of successful uses of the web service.

Published in the Student Economic Review waaay back in 2001.  It won best original essay.

Abstract Previous approaches to Digital Enterprises are surveyed, and their relevance to current approaches to modeling the Law of One Price, which holds that for identical goods in frictionless markets, the price for those goods should be the same....  We also compare the data gathered here with data from other sources to obtain a more reliable indicator.

with Nick Young, Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2007 [Download this version of the paper]