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Syllabus
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Reading Assignments
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Homework Assignments
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The Economist, “Survey of
Consumer Power” and “Profit
and Public Good”
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The
Market for Chocolate Chip Cookies and Other Things, Due 9/4/07
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Pindyck and Rubinfeld,
Chapter 15 (part 1)
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Pindyck and Rubinfeld,
Chapter 15 (part 2)
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New York
City’s Subways, 9/11/07
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Boardman et al, Chapter 6
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Paving
Albany’s Streets, Due 9/18/07
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Schmalensee
et al “An Interim Evaluation …”
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Effect
of Gasoline Tax on Gas Stations, due 10/2/07
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Stavins, “What Can We Learn…”
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Troy’s
Decision to Purchase or Lease Vehicles, due 10/9/07
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The Economist, “Upset
About Offsets”
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Regulation
at the New York State Public Service Commission, due 10/30/07
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Pindyck and Rubinfeld,
Chapter 17 (part 1)
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Pindyck and Rubinfeld,
Chapter 17 (part 2)
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Decision Memos Assignments
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Wyckoff, “To What Extent is…”
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M. O’Hare, “Rhetoric:
Memo to My Students”
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Wyckoff, Memo on Writing Decision Memo
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The Economist, “The Case for Flat
Taxes”
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J. Yinger, Effects of a Living Wage in Syracuse
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Casco Bay’s Ferries Case
Casco Bay Assignment
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Final Project
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Assignments
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Readings
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Memo
1: Understanding
the Structure of Teacher Salaries
Data
for Memo 1
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D. Goldhaber “How Has
Teacher Compensation Changed?”
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H. Lankford and J. Wyckoff “The
Changing Structure of Teacher Compensation, 1970-94”
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Memo 2: Attracting
High Quality Teachers
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Distributed in Class
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Data
for Memo 2
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