New Academic Term
Today is the first day of the Winter Term here at Southern Oregon University. I’ll be directing students from my Principles of Macro and Micro classes to this blog as a resource. This seems like a good time to go over the blog’s goals and how to use it.
Goals
Nothing lofty here – just a desire to provide two things: some succinct descriptions of economic concepts, and some examples of how those concepts can be used in understanding events in the world.
How to Use this Blog
If you are looking for that short description of a concept – check the list of labels/topics in the right hand column. For example, if you want to review opportunity cost, you can find that in the list, click on it and see all of the posts relating to it. You can also see a more general collection of either micro-economic or macro-economic concepts by clicking on the relevant “concepts” links.
In addition I recommend that you return to this blog, once a week or so, and just read what might be new. We are living in interesting times and there are plenty of examples of economic concepts that pop up during the term.
Comments
I welcome them – both to challenge my assumptions or observations or to add some interpretation to the events we see.
I teach principles of economics courses and a course in the economics of healthcare at Southern Oregon University.
Technology,eh? What devious tricks are you up to now, Gentry? =D