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What I would like economics majors to know
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Hemenway, David |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Abstract | I have been teaching microeconomics for more than four decades, and over the past months I have been seriously thinking about this question: “What are some of the most important things I would like economics majors to know before they graduate?” At first I was leaning to such important and well-known ideas as opportunity cost, marginal analysis, moral hazard, externalities, and the prisoners’ dilemma game. Now I am leaning to important ideas that are not well-covered in economic textbooks, and indeed are often omitted entirely. Five of the ideas that I would recommend are: |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue63/Hemenway63.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |