Notices– 15 November 2011

The first coursework will be marked and retuned to you by Friday 9 December. Model solutions will be posted later this week.

Timetable

There will be two lectures and one seminar a week for this course. The course timetable for ES10001 can be seen here whilst that for ES10010 can be seen here.
For non-POLIS students, there will be two pieces of assessed coursework, each comprising 20% of the overall course mark. The remaining 60% will be derived from the final unseen examination in January.
For POLIS students, this course and the related ‘Introductory Macroeconomics’ (ES10002) course that begins in February, together comprise a separate course vis. ‘Introductory Economics’ (ES10010). For ESML students taking ES10010, the two pieces of assessed coursework in both ES10001 and ES10002 will each comprise 10% of the overall course mark. A further 10% will be derived from a test held in January, with the remaining 50% being derived from an unseen examination in June.
Seminars start in Week 2. You can find your Seminar Group here.

The reading list, lecture handouts and problem sets can be found here.
A nice library of articles from the Economist may be found here.
And the Oxford Dictionary of Economics here.
Also, check out the Digital Economist here.
The companion websites for three of the recommended text books can be found here: Begg; Parkin; Lipsey and Chrystal.
You should definitely listen to the Economists’ Voice.

MASH is a maths and stats helpdesk run by the Mathematics Department here at Bath and is open to all students;
The AEA’s excellent ‘Resources for Economists on the Internet’ may be found here.
There are a number of excellent on line textbooks you find helpful. For example: Econ-Web, CyberEconomics, Basic Microeconomics, Virtual Economy and several others here.
You should check out the EconLTSN;

Steven Levitt, the author of Freakanomics was interviewed on Radio 5-Live’s Simon Mayo show on Friday 10 October 2008. You can listen to a podcast of the interview here (you will need a RealPlayer,which you can download for free here.

There are also excellent on line resources available to help you with your writing skills. Two of the best are Roy Bailey of the University of Essex and the MIT On-Line Writing Centre.