This seminar class for graduate students explores economic theories applied to real-life situations. Skills honed in this class are critical thinking, research methodology, academic reading, data evaluation and professional presentation.
The first section of the class is spent discussing the major theme, incentives and how people are incentivized―from the textbook Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Levitt and Dubner (2005). In the second part of this class students will work with the professor on their own research through writing, editing, practicing and presenting in a professional format--and in English.
