Thinking like an Economist: A Guide to Rational Decision Making
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Learn how to make smarter economic decisions in your professional and personal life by using the same practical principles and analytical tools employed by top economists.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Economist's Tool Kit-6 Principles
- 02: The Economist's Tool Kit-3 Core Concepts
- 03: The Myth of "True Value"
- 04: Incentives and Optimal Choice
- 05: False Incentives, Real Harm
- 06: The Economics of Ignorance
- 07: Playing the Odds-Reason in a Risky World
- 08: The Economics of Information
- 09: A Matter of Time-Predicting Future Values
- 10: Think Again-Evaluating Risk in Purchasing
- 11: Behavioral Economics-What Are We Thinking?
- 12: Acting like an Economist
Taught by
Randall Bartlett
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