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Due to unexpected circumstances the grades are delayed. The grates will be published on 14 June.
With the regard to submitting essay and home exam, follow the instructions given in e-mails sent to all students registered for econ4950, not the information on the course page web. The declaration form posted on the course page should be filled out and submitted as email attachment together with both essay and home exam. It is perfectly ok to sign by writing your name by computer rather than signing by hand.
LN-14 on the history of endogenous growth theory has been posted.
LN-13 'From Romer to Smith' has been posted.
The system for the course web page does not work properly. It is impossible to post documents. LN-13 will be posted as soon a sit works normally.
In Lecture 13 on 27 April some examples of possible exam questions will be given. The lecture itself will be on "From pin factory to endogenous growth. Looking backwards from Paul Romer to Adam Smith".
No seminar 26 April. Sorry for this information coming so late. I thought I had made it clear that I saw no point in seminar exercises in this course and thus would not take any initiative for a seminar unless a topic was sugested by students. Of course, I should nevertheless ahve canceled the announced seminar in due time. ob
Som information about the essay is given in the 'About essay' note on the web page.
Lecture note 10 posted. Next week: Trygve Haavelmo from Frisch's laboratory to Cowles Commission.
Lecture note 9 (Ragnar Frisch) posted. Next week: Early Norwegian Economic Thought.
Lecture note 8 posted. Next time Econometric history and Ragnar Frisch
The contact student for ECON4950 is Axel Nerdrum.
The seminar announced for 8 March is cancelled.
Please note: Information about the portfolio assessment is now published. See this document
Lecture note 6 posted. No lecture next week. The Economist issue retrieving Irving Fisher from the murky depths of forgotten economists is here: http://www.economist.com/node/13104022 No lecture week 9. Next time: Wicksell and Keynes.
LN-5 has been posted. Lecture plan has been modified, the page no. refs to Sandmo changed to English edition. I realize that the Austrians should have come in Lecture 6, so we take the remainder then, plus American economists incl. Veblen. Seminar 2 (Tuesday 22 Feb.) is just discussion about exams, essays, literature source and search tools. One hour will do.
Presentation 4 (Ricardo and Malthus) has been posted.
Lecture note and texts for lecture 3 has been posted. The forthcoming seminar 22 February will be used to discuss, essay and exam issues.
Oops, a mistake a previous message!! Lecture 3 on Adam Smith Tuesday 8 february in Aud. 2. Lecture 4 on Ricardo and Malthus Wednesday 9 February in Aud. 4.
The course has got Aud. 2 ES for seminars/lectures. The next lecture will be Lecture 3 (Adam Smith) Tuesday 8 Feb. in Aud. 4. Lecture 4 (Ricardo, Malthus) on 9 Feb.
Teaching material for lecture 2 has been posted. No lecture/seminar in week 5.