PPT-ECON*2100 Week 1 – Lecture

2 The Story of Economic Development 1 2 Worlds Pre1800 Post1800 2 The Pre1800 World Agriculturebased Subsistence economies High level of equality Low life expectancy 3 The Numbers. Week 10. Ayesha Ali. www.lancaster.ac.uk/postgrad/alia10/econ102.html. a.ali11@lancaster.ac.uk. o. ffice hours: 8:00AM – 8:50AM . tuesdays. LUMS C85. Question 1 . H2OClean Ltd supplies domestic kitchen water filters to the retail market and hires workers to assemble the components. A water filter sells for £26, and H2OClean can buy the components for each filter for £1. Kevin and Sharon are two workers for H2OClean Ltd. Sharon can assemble 60 water filters per month, and Kevin can assemble 70. If the labour market is perfectly competitive, how much will each be paid? . Ensembles. Decision Forests . (actually, Random Forests). Bagging and Boosting. Decision Stumps. 9/22/15. CS 540 - Fall 2015 (© Jude . Shavlik. ), Lecture 7, Week 3. 1. CS 540 - Fall 2015 (© Jude . Ayesha Ali. www.lancaster.ac.uk/postgrad/alia10/econ102.html. a.ali11@lancaster.ac.uk. o. ffice hours: 8:00AM – 8:50AM . tuesdays. LUMS C85. Today’s Outline. We’ll review the exam from Friday. www.lancaster.ac.uk/postgrad/murphys4/. s.murphy5@lancaster.ac.uk. office: LUMS . C85. Question 1. Match . each of the three . types of price discrimination . to the following definitions:. (a) When . Ayesha Ali. www.lancaster.ac.uk/postgrad/alia10/econ102.html. a.ali11@lancaster.ac.uk. o. ffice hours: 8:00AM – 8:50AM . tuesdays. LUMS C85. In-class activity: modelling a game in normal form and in extensive form. Ayesha Ali. www.lancaster.ac.uk/postgrad/alia10/econ102.html. a.ali11@lancaster.ac.uk. o. ffice hours: 8:00AM – 8:50AM . tuesdays. LUMS C85. A few things we need to know:. Marginal Rate of Substitution. 5. Shane Murphy. s.murphy5@lancaster.ac.uk. Office Hours: Monday 3:00-4:00 – LUMS . C85. LUMS . Maths. and Stats Help (MASH) Centre. Are you mystified by . maths. ? Stuck with statistics? The LUMS . Week . 2 . – Lecture . 1. Models of Economic Growth:. Smith & The Classics. What do we mean by growth?. Extensive growth: output only grows because inputs grow. Output keeps up with population. Economic Growth and Environmental Quality. Climate Change Lectures . I. Science Background. 1. 2. What do we mean by “global warming”?. “Since the late 1960s, much of the North Atlantic Ocean has become less salty, in part due to increases in fresh water runoff induced by global warming, scientists say. Week 10. Shane Murphy. www.lancaster.ac.uk/postgrad/murphys4. Question 1 . H2OClean Ltd supplies domestic kitchen water filters to the retail market and hires workers to assemble the components. A water filter sells for £26, and H2OClean can buy the components for each filter for £1. Kevin and Sharon are two workers for H2OClean Ltd. Sharon can assemble 60 water filters per month, and Kevin can assemble 70. If the labour market is perfectly competitive, how much will each be paid? . Econ 340. Econ 340, Deardorff, Lecture 19: Development Trade. 2. Outline: International Policies for Economic Development: Trade. The Main Issues of Development. The Washington Consensus. Special Problems of Developing Countries. Econ 340. Econ 340, Deardorff, Lecture 17: Euro. 2. Outline: European Monetary Unification and the Euro. What Is It?. History of the EMU. Need for Convergence. Pros and Cons of Unification. Why Adjustment Is Hard. Econ 340, Deardorff, Lecture 24: Review. 2. Lecture 24 Outline. For each lecture:. Outline. Major questions. Lists of. Terms. Acronyms (most are really Initialisms). Clicker questions. Especially on graphs. Econ 340. Econ 340, Deardorff, Lecture 12: Trade Balance. 2. Outline: The Balance of Trade and International Transactions. What Is the Balance of Trade?. What the Balance of Trade Does . Not. Mean.