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Economics 1010a is really Ec 10 with more curves to learn, no reading, and a teacher who might actually know who you are. It was previously taught by Jeffrey Wolcowitz, a rotund policy wonk who makes an effort to help his students and learn their names, even in a 300-person lecture class. Jeffrey A. Miron takes his place this year...
...what you learned about monopoly, perfect competition, and positive and negative externalities in Ec 10, you'll draw stranger graphs that look pretty in your notes but won't make conceptual sense to you at all. If economics is your love, you'll probably get caught up in the 1010a spell. Otherwise, you'll stop going to lecture...
Unlike Ec 10, you aren't in the least expected to do the assigned reading (i.e., you don't have to even pretend to apply economic concepts you learn in 1010a to the real world). For better or for worse, that and other aspects of Ec 1010a make this class a more technical and in-depth version...
...Planned departmental courses Physical Sciences 1a and Physical Sciences 1b, “Motion, Size and Life,” will count for Science A credit. Government 1780, “Introduction to Political Economy,” will join the two current departmental alternates for Social Analysis, Economics 1010a and 1010b. —Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached at lbeckett@fas.harvard.edu...
...Wallets in Their Hands,” Sept. 21). I just had to pay $154 for a coursepack for Social Analysis 52 after already spending more than $100 on bound books for the same course. Meanwhile, I’m saving a huge amount of money in Ec 1010a, which has posted all of its suggested articles online for free and therefore has no coursepack. If only more professors followed Ec 1010a’s lead...