This page contains all of the following resources for each class meeting:
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Content materials contains suggested readings, more details about assignments, math appendices, and other helpful resources. I suggest you view these before each class.
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Slides directly link to the “Xaringan” presentations in html that can be opened in any browser (You can find a downloadable PDF in each respective content page)
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Assignments are listed with due dates
Please note that the lesson numbers, topics, and titles (e.g. 1.1) are my design, and do not match up with the textbook!
Relevant materials, if applicable will be posted before class meets and become colored links.
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| W January 26 |
1.1 — Choosing in Groups |
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| M January 31 |
1.2 — Externalities and Bargaining |
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| W February 2 |
1.3 — Property Rights and Transaction Costs |
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| M February 7 |
1.4 — Team Production & The Problem of Economic Organization |
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| W February 9 |
1.5 — Public Goods, Club Goods, and the Commons |
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| M February 14 |
1.6 — The Problem of Rent-Seeking |
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| W February 16 |
1.7 — Justice, and Efficiency as a Normative Goal |
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| M February 21 |
2.1 — Constituting a Group |
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| W February 23 |
2.2 — Liberalism and the State |
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| M February 28 |
2.3 — The Calculus of Consent |
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| W March 2 |
2.4 — The Status Quo, Tradition, & Constitutional Change |
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| M/W March 7/9 |
3.1 — Voting I: Preference Aggregation & Paradoxes |
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| M/W March 21/23 |
3.2 — Voting II: Ignorance & Irrationality |
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| M March 28 |
3.3 — Interest Groups |
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| W March 30 |
3.4 — Politicians |
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| F April 1 |
Midterm Exam Due |
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| M April 4 |
3.5 — Bureaucracy |
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| W April 6 |
3.6 — The Judiciary |
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| M April 11 |
3.7 — Federalism |
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| W April 13 |
4.1 — Exit, Voice, and Loyalty |
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| M April 18 |
4.2 — The Rise of the Administrative State |
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| W April 20 |
4.3 — Corruption and Reform |
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| M April 25 |
4.4 — Taxation |
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| W April 27 |
4.5 — Common Ownership Self-Assessed Tax |
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| M May 2 |
4.6 — Democracy2: Quadratic Voting |
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| W May 4 |
4.7 — The Dark Web & Reputation |
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| F May 13 |
Policy Paper due |
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Final Exam due |
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