Here are the notes for tomorrow’s PhD student talk on beauty in mathematical modeling. I’ll bring a handout to class of other modeling tips also.
Posts Tagged: International trade
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Oct 09
How do we feed a city?
Just ahead of next week’s EC4004 jump into inequality and macroeconomics, here’s a great talk on the processes of actually feeding a city (ht: Tim Berry). Important bits from the talk:
- We lose about 47 million acres of rainforest every year. And at the same time, we lose about 50 million acres of farm land to salinization and erosion.
- Half the food produced in the USA is thrown away.
- A billion of us are obese while another billion starve.
- 80% of global trade in food is controlled by five corporations.
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Sep 08
EC4333, Economics for Business, Lecture 3: Trade, Economic and Monetary Union
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The last two lectures (watch them here and here) looked at the history and structure of the EU up to the Lisbon Treaty. We also began talking about trade creation and trade destruction. The purpose of this lecture is first, to finish off the theory of trade, and look at some data regarding trade integration in the EU over time, and second, to begin talking about monetary union.
Click below for lecture notes, handouts, links, and slides. A podcast will be available after the lecture.
