Student resources

The resources I wish I had known about a decade ago.

One groundrule: Do the work. Always read the law. Always read the footnotes. Always read about the assumptions of the model. How to read an article: “The Butler Did It




Selected public policy topics


Economic lectures + notes


Classic papers


The seen and the unseen

  • Dissoi Logoi is a rhetorical exercise of unknown authorship, most likely dating to just after the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC) based on comments within the exercise’s text.

The limits of knowledge in machine learning


Discounting and time


Information and firms


Economics of property rights


Economics of AI


Robots and workers


Zero priced goods


Platform economics


Public policy and wicked problems


DARPA


NASA and space


The economics of privacy


Freedom of speech


Theory of computer science


Public economics + public finance


Lists of biases:


Literature reviews


Reading lists


Math + stats:


Econometrics + model making

  • “This document contains the set of lecture notes from the late Gary Chamberlain’s 2010 Econometrics class (EC2120) that I (Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham) took during my economics Ph.D. at Harvard University. Gary was a remarkable teacher and this class was an amazing experience for me as a young economist.” [Github]
  • Cara Jackson is collecting Wooldridge’s Twitter lessons in a Google Doc.

From Christine Cai


Programming for economists, R, python, libraries, packages, etc.


Misc lectures, notes, + resources