Section 1: Microeconomics
Lecture 1: Economics foundations and models
Lecture 2: Trade-offs, comparative advantage, and the market system
Lecture 3: Comparative advantage and the gains from international trade
Lecture 4: The interaction of demand and supply
Lecture 5: Economic efficiency, government price setting, and tax externalities
Lecture 6: Environmental policy and public goods
Lecture 7: Elasticity-the responsiveness of demand and supply
Lecture 8: Monopoly
Section 2: Macroeconomics
Lecture 9: GDP-measuring total production and income
Lecture 10: Unemployment and inflation
Lecture 11: Economic growth, the financial system, and business cycles
Lecture 12: Aggregate expenditure and output in the short run
Lecture 13: Aggregate demand and aggregate supply analysis
Lecture 14: Money, banks, and the federal reserve system monetary policy
Lecture 15: Overview the government spending and tax multipliers
Textbooks:
Acemoglu, D., Laibson, D., and List, J. (2022). Economics (3rd Edition). Pearson Education.
Samuelson, P., and Nordhaus, W. (2020). Economics (20th Edition). McGraw-Hill Education.
Mankiw, N. (2024). Principles of Economics (10th Edition). Cengage Learning.
Section 1: Foundation to Environmental Economics
Lecture 1: The environment and economics
Lecture 2: Normative and positive economic analysis
Lecture 3: Social choice: Environmental protection
Lecture 4: Efficiency and markets
Lecture 5: Market failure: Public goods, public bads and externalities
Lecture 6: Making decisions about environmental programs
Lecture 7: Demand for environmental goods
Lecture 8: Hedonic price methods
Section 2: Regulating Pollution
Lecture 9: Regulating pollution
Lecture 10: Emission prices and fees
Lecture 11: Property rights
Lecture 12: Audits, enforcement and moral hazard
Lecture 13: Voluntary actions and agreements
Section 3: Advanced Topics
Lecture 14: Managing risk and uncertainty
Lecture 15: Environment, growth and development
Textbooks:
Kolstad, C. (2011), Environmental economics (2nd Edition). New York : Oxford University Press.
Tietenberg, T., and Lewis, L. (2019). Environmental and natural resource economics (11th Edition). Routledge.
Section 1: Introduction and Background
Lecture 1: Introduction to public policy
Lecture 2: Budget analysis and deficit financing
Section 2: Externalities and Public Goods
Lecture 3: Externalities: Problems and solutions
Lecture 4: Externalities in action: Environmental and health externalities
Lecture 5: Public goods and cost-benefit analysis
Lecture 6: State and local government expenditures
Lecture 7: Education
Section 3: Social Insurance and Redistribution
Lecture 8: Social insurance: The new function of government
Lecture 9: Social security, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and workers’ compensation
Lecture 10: Health insurance I: Health economics and private health insurance
Lecture 11: Health insurance II: Medicare, medicaid, and health care reform
Lecture 12: Income distribution and welfare programs
Section 4: Taxation in Theory and Practice
Lecture 13: Taxation: How it works and what it means
Lecture 14: Taxation of business income
Lecture 15: Fundamental tax reform and consumption taxation
Textbooks:
Gruber, J. (2018). Public finance and public policy (6th Edition), Worth Publishers.
Stiglitz, J., and Rosengard, J. (2015). Economics of the public sector (6th Edition). WW Norton & Company.
Section 1: Introduction to International Economics
Lecture 1: Basics of international economics
Lecture 2: Introduction to international trade
Lecture 3: Reasons of international trade
Lecture 4: International trade models
Section 2: International Trade Policy
Lecture 5: The instruments of trade policy
Lecture 6: The political economy of trade policy
Lecture 7: Trade policy in developing countries: Part A
Lecture 8: Trade policy in developing countries: Part B
Section 3: Open-economy Macroeconomics
Lecture 9: Globalization, trade and environment
Lecture 10: Macroeconomic analysis of trade balance
Lecture 11: National income accounting and the balance of payments
Lecture 12: Money, interest rates, exchange rates and the Federal Reserve
Section 4: International Macroeconomic Policy
Lecture 13: Economic geography
Lecture 14: Developing countries growth, crisis and reform
Lecture 15: International trade and biodiversity
Textbooks:
Krugman, P., Obstfeld, M., and Melitz, M. (2018). International economics: Theory and policy. Boston: Pearson Education.
Krugman, P., Obstfeld, M., and Melitz, M. (2017). International trade: Theory and policy. Boston: Pearson Education.
Krugman, P., Obstfeld, M., and Melitz, M. (2018). International finance: Theory and policy. Boston: Pearson Education.
Section 1: Economics of Energy
Lecture 1: Energy overview
Lecture 2: Role of energy in the economy
Lecture 3: Energy markets, prices, and efficiency
Lecture 4: The economics of renewable energy
Lecture 5: Energy and economic growth
Lecture 6: Economic theory of the mine
Section 2: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Lecture 7: Oil and natural gas extraction and pricing
Lecture 8: Externalities and policy instruments
Lecture 9: The benefits and costs of environmental protection
Section 3: Industrial Ecology
Lecture 10: The changing landscape for global oil companies
Lecture 11: Carbon-neutral energy systems
Lecture 12: Global energy disparities
Section 4: Energy Policy
Lecture 13: International environmental agreements
Lecture 14: Energy efficiency: Puzzle and policies
Lecture 15: Energy policy consequences
Textbooks:
Schwarz, P. (2021). Energy Economics. Routledge.
Zweifel, P., Praktiknjo, A., and Erdmann, G. (2017). Energy Economics: Theory and Applications. Springer.
Bhattacharyya, S. (2011). Energy Economics: Concepts, Issues, Markets, and Governance. Springer.
Section 1: Foundations of human geography
Lecture 1: Introduction to human geography
Lecture 2: Population
Lecture 3: Migration
Lecture 4: Local culture, popular culture, and cultural landscapes
Lecture 5: Identity: Race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality
Lecture 6: Political geography
Lecture 7: Urban geography
Lecture 8: The humanized environment
Section 2: Foundations of geographic plots in R and Python
Lecture 9: Processing shapefiles in R and Python
Lecture 10: Basic maps with R and Python
Section 3: Elegant geographic plots in R and Python
Lecture 11: Human geography of Africa
Lecture 12: Human geography of Asia
Lecture 13: Human geography of Australia
Lecture 14: Human geography of Europe
Lecture 15: Human geography of North America
Textbooks:
Fouberg, E., Murphy, A., and De Blij, H. (2020). Human geography: People, place, and culture. 12th edition. Wiley.
Lovelace, R., Nowosad, J., and Muenchow, J. (2019). Geocomputation with R. CRC Press.
Comber, L., and Brunsdon, C. (2020). Geographical data science and spatial data analysis: An Introduction in R. Sage.
Section 1: What is Future Design
Lecture 1: Introduction to future design
Lecture 2: Future design: Combination of three academic disciplines
Lecture 3: Future design: From the perspective of economics
Section 2: Future Design and Sustainable Development
Lecture 4: Population growth and well-being
Lecture 5: The environment and economics
Lecture 6: The quality of the environment
Lecture 7: Globalization and the environment
Lecture 8: Market failure: Public goods, public bads and externalities
Lecture 9: Future failures: Disruption of C-cycle and N-cycle
Section 3: Future Design and Public Policy
Lecture 10: The economics of biodiversity
Lecture 11: The economics of climate change
Lecture 12: Environmental goods valuation
Lecture 13: Climate change: The ultimate challenge for economics
Lecture 14: Natural experiments help answer important questions
Lecture 15: How institutions affect economic development?
Textbooks:
Gruber, J. (2018). Public finance and public policy (6th Edition), Worth Publishers.
Stiglitz, J., and Rosengard, J. (2015). Economics of the public sector (6th Edition). WW Norton & Company.
Kolstad, C. (2011), Environmental economics (2nd Edition). New York : Oxford University Press.
Updated on: 2025-01-24