Lecture Notes and Short Texts in Other topics

Online course consisting of 41 Youtube videos (totalling about 4 hours), online self-tests and forum capabilities for asking questions. The course addresses the economics of media industries, media bias, regulation and other governmental actions, and how media related to economic development. Six of the video lectures are given by guest speakers, addressing topics including media bias, net neutrality, and the market for newspapers.

This is a website accompanying a 9 hour course in behavioural economics taught by Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago and organised by the Edge Foundation. It featured input from Sendhil Mullainathan, as well as Daniel Kahneman. The site includes texts providing an introduction to behavioural economics, reports on two days of the course and a videos of 10-15 minutes from each class, alongside a transcript of each videoed session.

Part of a website supporting a course on the economics of education at MIT, as taught by Frank Levy in 2007. This series of lecture slides is available as PDF downloads and covers topics such as human capital theory, teacher quality and teacher training, higher education policy and school accountability, standards and testing.

This is the website for a course on behavioural economics as taught as an advanced course at masters level by the University of Oslo since 2006. It includes details of the syllabus / reading list, assessment methods, lecture handouts and economic problems to be discussed in the seminars. Specific topics covered by the course include behavioral decision theory, time inconsistency and self-control, social preferences and fairness.