My New Policy Class

I’m teaching a new new course this semester, Econ 309: Economic Problems and Public Policies. Here’s the syllabus; here’s the complete class. Some of the lectures are just abbreviated versions of my full-length classes on labor economics, education, and immigration. But Econ 309 also includes totally new lectures on cost-benefit analysis, Covid policy, how government actually works, universal redistribution, means-tested redistribution, housing regulation, and energy/environmental policy.

Lectures will not be recorded; hybrid is just too hard to do skillfully. As always, however, I welcome the world to attend in-person. Can you audit? Yes. Can you visit? Yes. Bring friends? Yes. The class is right in Carow Hall on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9 AM, so you can learn some econ, then wander down the hall to share ideas with Robin, Alex, Tyler, Vincent, or whoever else has some free minutes.