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I will be in my office on Wednesday if anyone has questions. I am alway accessible by email.
I was just notified that I did show up today. How I maneged to mess this I up I cannot really. I had somehow come to the conclusion that when I lecture on 29 April (which is not on the Schedule) I had finished my 13 lectures and I had compressed my lecture material to fit it in. I realized this is at variance with my own "Lecture plan" and that I have in fact given only 12 lectures.
I apologize for that and wish you luck at the exam.
I have told Tone Enger today that some or all of you have not got candidate numbers and she has promised to fix it.
Olav Bjerkholt
LN-13 has been posted. Still one chance of presenting at seminar 3 May on Haavelmo!
Read very carefully the message of 26 April about the take-home exam.
The problem set for the take-home exam will be published on the course website on May 13, 2013 at 09:00 am. Your answer must be submitted electronically (as a pdf-file) to "submissions(at)econ.uio.no" not later than May 13, 2013 at 05:00 pm. Your answer must not bare your name, but the individual candidate number (not student number), given on all pages as a header. The candidate number is to be found in your studentweb. The file-name should be your candidate number.
Together with your paper, you must submit a declaration. The declaration form will be posted on the course website. Please note that the declaration form should bear your name, and must be submitted separately.
Some possible exam questions have been posted.
It would be helpful if those who intend to submit term papers before 30 April will let me know. OB
Approval notices for term papers submitted by 16 April have been sent out.
Two papers have been posted. One by Ragnar Frisch on his conception of economic theory written 1930 as a lecture to Yale students (unpublished until 2010). The other is the first two chapters of Trygve Haavelmo's famous Probability Approach paper 1944 setting out his new ideas. The second paper is up for grabs.
The point is just to communicate some of the most important ideas of these papers to the class. No reason to go into technicalities.
We continue the experiment of reading papers that have played a role in the history of economics and presenting to the seminar some of the main ideas. The Seminar plan has been updated.
The two topics for the 26 April seminar is Milton Friedman’s methodological instrumentalism (1953) and Wassily Leontief’s criticism of the profession in his AEA Presidential Address (1971). Both topics are concerned with critique of current practices in economics but of somewhat different character. The papers are posted as Friedman 1953 and Leontief 1971. In addition a comment of Friedman 1953 is posted as Rotwein 1959.
Term papers should be sent as pdf-attachments to
Some additions made to the information about the term paper regarding length and language,
As I will be away in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia there will be some minor changes in the study plan. On Friday 5 April the seminar (on Veblen) will be taken over by Lars Mjøset.
The lecture on Monday 8 April will be cancelled, see revised lecture plan. The seminar on 12 April will be slightly delayed, as my plane due to arrive 9:15. I hope the seminar can start 10:45.
Seminar 15 March on Dupuit (paper posted). Seminar 22 March cancelled. Instead we have seminar on 5 April on Veblen (2 papers posted). Seminar 12 April on Keynes (2 papers posted). Revised seminar plan posted. Please confirm (or disconfirm) assigned seminar tasks.
LN-7 posted. Ricardo On Machinery and P.A. Samuelson on Ricardo have been posted for the forthcoming seminar.
LN-4 and revised lecture plan posted.
The seminar plan reshuffled again. One Smith topic free on 8 Feb. and one Smith topic free on 15 Feb.
The Lail Manuscript. Chapter and sections before "3.3 Proabbility in economics" can be skipped.
Seminar plan updated. Signing up for seminars can be done by email. Pls, let me know about errors (incl. spelling mistakes).
TERM PAPER Term paper topic can be chosen freely. Topic plus chosen original work (book/article) can be sent to me by email, deadline 2 April 2012. Deadline (official) for submitting 16 April 2013. Actual deadline 30 April 2013.
Lecture plan posted. Seminar plan posted. Allocations of persons to seminar will be done during lecture of be email. Anyone intersted in signing up for stated topics or blanks is welcome to contact me by email.
Exam will be May 13. One-day home exam. Deadline for submitting term paper will be April 30.
Presentation file and lecture notes for Lecture 2 (plus additional notes) have been posted.
The presentation file for the lecture 1 has been posted as L1. The Lail manuscript has been posted, also under lecture notes. A list of chapter/sections that can be skipped will be given later.