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Either by accident or by design, you have directed your web browser to my index page. If you are:

• ...An economics student in my class looking for supplementary material I have told you about, please look at the section marked Economics 311.
• ...One of my friends or acquaintances looking for something in particular, it should be where I told you to look.
• ...Here by mistake, feel free to look around. *shurg*

Economics 311

Fall 2003

• Updated Econ 311 Lecture Schedule for Fall 2003.

• Fall 2002 Midterm in PDF Format - This is an example of what the midterm will look like as far as format and question types go.

Summer 2003

Note to all students: I could not find a sample final exam to use. The final exam review sheet should be enough practice material since I write the entire final based on that review sheet. If you know everything on there, you know basically everything I am going to ask.

This is the Review Sheet for the Final. The Final Exam is not cumulative.

Spring 2003

• Syllabus in PDF Format.

• For those who think there is too much reading required for this class...

Articles - You need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the JEH articles. Also, to download the JEH articles you must be on campus somewhere. If you are unable to figure out how to print out the articles, ask me for help immediately.

• Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind - Benjamin Franklin, 1751.

• Land Clearing Under Nineteenth-Century Techniques: Some Preliminary Calculations - Martin L. Primack, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 22, No. 4. (Dec., 1962), pp. 484-497.

• Debt Peonage in the Cotton South After the Civil War - Roger L. Ransom, Richard Sutch, The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 32, No. 3. (Sep., 1972), pp. 641-669.

Notes - These are my own notes that summarize works of others. This is like reading the Cliff's Notes versions of these papers/chapters.

• My 20 page summary of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations by David S. Landes.

• Invention vs. Innovation and the nature of technological change according to Nathan Rosenberg from Inside the Black Box.

• My final project from Econ 611 on Mark Bils' Tariff Protection and Production in the Early U.S. Cotton Textile Industry paper.

Old Stuff from Fall 2002

• Econ 311 Study Guide for the Final Exam

• Picture This: Breaks in Transportation

• Picture This: 19th Century Agriculture

• Picture This: Machine Tools

• CNN Cold War Historical Documents: Khrushchev - Nixon Debate

• This is an MP3 of the debate - Rename to kitchen.mp3 to play it. (1.361 MB) Most of the stuff I was talking about is omitted in the CNN/NY Times summary linked above.

Old Stuff from Spring 2002

• Econ 311 Study Guide for the first Midterm I handed out at the review session

• A brief summary of the Callender paper.

• Some notes on the Hurst chapter.

• A writeup on the Harvest Labor Constraint.

The old stuff I did for Econ 200 when I was a TA for Dr. Schwab in Fall 2001.

Miscellany

Front Office Baseball League Main Site - I am the owner of the Davenport Falcons franchise in this OOTP4 league.

Editorial "Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" - This is a link to the cleanest hosted copy I could find (no stupid graphics).

Sinfest - Daily web comic strip.

How I think about relationships - This is actually a rewrite of something I did in college and then lost.

Perhaps this is why I don't listen to American music - Am I bored or what?

A short summary of the Run and Shoot Offense - Based off of Glenn Ellison's book.

Get a Gangsta name! - I am Secret Prison Fish or Fat Ugly Crack Baby depending on whether I use my middle name or not.

I know you are dying to know what I am listening to in my CD player.