Anyone taken ECONONOMICS courses before?

[Scrapster]

Did you like them? I'm thinking about taking some ECON courses. I've already taken calculus so I'm thinking why not. Can someone give me a brief description of what they teach you in economics?

 

[Mikal]

Bring along the No-Doze, that's for sure!

 

[thereds]

ECONONOMICS

piece of cakeke, dude.

 

[tkim]

econ major here. pm me if you got specific questions.

 

[Tates]

The only things in life that you need are air, water, food, shelter, and possibly love. All else are wants......

 

[palad]

No, but I bet a lot of people have taken economics courses. Never heard of econonomics.

 

[Buddhist]

econs fun, you learn a lot of important things that you will use in everyday life. its very hard though so you need to pay close attention and ask for help the second you start floundering in class...otherwise you'll fall back behind.

The kind of things they teach you in econ (depending upon which econ, macro or micro)

are:

supply and demand
inflation and unemployment impacts
currency exchanges
and basic finance stuff...

a lot more detailed things as well...but those are some of the major ones.

-M.T.O

 

[FettsBabe]

Eco is easy, but you have to pay attention and read...if not you will get lost!

 

[Mikal]

A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything was last year!

 

[thereds]

On a serious not, econ rules!

Trade Theories
Price Theories

Excellent stuff.

 

[Helpless]

..do you mean Econometrics? If so, yea, I have

 

[tkim]

hey mikal...do oyu hit every post and make comments that are retarded?? i can see by your 20+ posts a day you have got too mcuh time.

 

[stonerdave]

it's pretty easy but that didn't stop me from screwing up.

in micro they teach you about supply & demand amongst other things.

 

[Mikal]

I only hit posts that interest me. And I know how to spell, young one.

 

[Helpless]

>>it's pretty easy but that didn't stop me from screwing up.<<


I disagree...what level econ. did you take and where did you go to school?

 

[tkim]

it's not abuot spelling, i typed it wrong. geos to show hwo anal people are when they have too mcuh time.

 

[Mikal]

<< it's not abuot spelling, i typed it wrong. geos to show hwo anal people are when they have too mcuh time. >>



It's all about the shoes, ain't it?

 

[stonerdave]

i took them at U-M ann arbor. i'm talking about the intro classes (which i assume the original poster was referring to), not the higher up ones. i did well in macro but not micro.

 

[LittlePrincess]

Introduction to Economics

The problem of scarcity and its implications, choice; opportunity cost, specialization and exchange; supply and demand; economic choices of households and firms; competition and monopoly; resource markets; public policy; income distribution; national income; aggregate supply and aggregate demand; inflation, unemployment and interest rates; money and monetary institutions; balance of payments; and exchange rates.

 

[tkim]

pure genius. btw how old do you think i am? i'm pretty sure you're wrong.

 

[Helpless]

Advanced micro. and time-series econometrics where the hardest for me...out of a class of 15 to start, we finished with 4 qualified time-series econometricians

 

[StageLeft]

They were pretty boring in highschool but now that I'm done university with a BSc I wish I'd majored in economics. I find it pretty interesting now

Thing about economics is that the courses may or may not be easy but Economics itself and mastering it is probabaly one of the most difficult things a person can do. In fact its virtually impossible; hence the zillions of market analysts who don't really know what they're talking about. I would almost say it is impossible to master. Course, its still fun trying.

 

[Mikal]

tkim Don't know, don't care. Now, if you'll pardon me I have neffing to do.

 

[Hanpan]

It really depens on the teacher. Some people swear it's easy other classes have a 30% faliure rate. IT is tough to say. Generally though macro ecenomics is easier than micro.

 

[Superdoopercooper]

Econ is pretty easy. No calculus really necessary... at least for Microecon. When you get into intermediate micro and macro... calc does help a bit... cause they use derivatives.

But, it is all about messaging numbers and looking for supply vs. demand. Some of the few subjects that gave me humanities credits... but that had equations in it. I like equations. I hate writing and reading... ugh.