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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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This course is designed to introduce classic macroeconomic issues such as growth, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, exchange rates, technological progress, and budget deficits. The course will provide a unified framework to address these issues and to study the impact of different policies, such as monetary and fiscal policies, on th
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- economics
- principles of macroeconomics
- measuring macroeconomic variables
- production functions
- labor markets
- consumption
- investment
- economic growth
- is-lm model
- as-ad model
- classical business policy
- price rigidity
- wage rigidity
- monetary policy
- fiscal policy
- economic crises
- policy in an open economy
- global economic imbalances
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This course is a survey of modern macroeconomics at a quite advanced level. Topics include the neoclassical growth model, overlapping generations, endogenous growth models, business cycles, incomplete nominal adjustment, incomplete financial markets, fiscal and monetary policy, consumption and savings, and unemployment. The course is also a
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- economics
- advanced macroeconomics
- dynamic programming
- neoclassical theory
- new growth theory
- consumption
- saving behavior
- investment
- unemployment
- financial markets
- asset pricing
- public finance
- externalities
- research and development
- innovation
- business cycles
- nominal adjustment
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This course surveys research which incorporates psychological evidence into economics. Topics include: prospect theory, biases in probabilistic judgment, self-control and mental accounting with implications for consumption and savings, fairness, altruism, and public goods contributions, financial market anomalies and theories, impact of mar
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- economics
- behavioral economics
- finance
- psychology
- prospect theory
- bias
- probabilistic judgment
- self-control
- mental accounting
- fairness
- altruism
- public goods
- market anomalies
- market theories
- heuristics
- noise
- confusion
- competition
- bounded rationality
- learning
- games
- neuroeconomics
- hyperbolic discounting
- consumption
- hyperbolics
- tem
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This course covers issues in the theory of consumption, investment and asset prices. We lay out the basic models first, and then examine the empirical facts that motivate extensions to these models.
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This class examines how and why twentieth-century Americans came to define the "good life" through consumption, leisure, and material abundance. We will explore how such things as department stores, nationally advertised brand-name goods, mass-produced cars, and suburbs transformed the American economy, society, and politics. The course is
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- history
- twentieth century history
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- united states
- marketing
- mass-production
- consumption
- economics
- politics
- middle class
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- american dream
- mass-market
- suburbs
- e-commerce
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This course will explore the relation of women and men in both pre-industrial and modern societies to the changing map of public and private (household) work spaces, examining how that map affected their opportunities for both productive activity and the consumption of goods and leisure. The reproductive strategies of women, either in conju
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- history
- history
- economics
- work
- family
- women
- men
- pre-industrial
- modern
- societies
- public
- private
- household
- work spaces
- map
- consumption
- goods
- leisure
- reproductive strategies
- domestic
- policy
- work force
- demographic
- western europe
- middle ages
- united states
- non-western cultures
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Choice of material has implications throughout the life-cycle of a product, influencing many aspects of economic and environmental performance. This course will provide a survey of methods for evaluating those implications. Lectures will cover topics in material choice concepts, fundamentals of engineering economics, manufacturing economics
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- materials science and engineering
- cost
- value
- cash flow
- discount
- life-cycle
- engineering economics
- manufacturing economics
- lca
- life-cycle assessment
- pcbm
- process-based cost modeling
- cost model
- environmental impact
- uncertainty
- consumption
- efficiency
- waste
- ashby
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This course examines alternative conceptions and theoretical underpinnings of the notion of "sustainable development." It focuses on the sustainability problems of industrial countries (i.e., aging of populations, sustainable consumption, institutional adjustments, etc.); and of developing states and economies in transition (i.e., managing
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- political science
- political theory
- sustainable development
- industrial ized nations
- aging population
- consumption
- developing countries
- economics
- production
- sociology
- technology
- regulation
- public policy
- environment
- business
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- new growth theory
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- saving behavior
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- unemployment
- financial markets
- asset pricing
- public finance
- externalities
- research and development
- innovation
- business cycles
- nominal adjustment
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- advertising
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- american dream
- mass-market
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- marketing
- mass-production
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- economics
- politics
- middle class
- advertising
- status
- american dream
- mass-market
- suburbs
- e-commerce
- fast food
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- united states
- marketing
- mass-production
- consumption
- economics
- politics
- middle class
- advertising
- status
- american dream
- mass-market
- suburbs
- e-commerce
- fast food
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- popular culture
- united states
- marketing
- mass-production
- consumption
- economics
- politics
- middle class
- advertising
- status
- american dream
- mass-market
- suburbs
- e-commerce
- fast food
File: 14-02-fall-2009.zip
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- labor markets
- consumption
- investment
- economic growth
- is-lm model
- as-ad model
- classical business policy
- price rigidity
- wage rigidity
- monetary policy
- fiscal policy
- economic crises
- policy in an open economy
- global economic imbalances
File: 14-06-spring-2004.zip
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- unemployment
- financial markets
- asset pricing
- public finance
- externalities
- research and development
- innovation
- business cycles
- nominal adjustment
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