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.
Also tagged Add new tag, Business, Doctor of Philosophy, Econometrics, Economic, Hal Varian, Supply chain, Time seriesJust 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 [...]
Also tagged Acre, Erosion, Food industry, Macroeconomics, Obesity, Rainforest, United StatesThe 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 [...]
Also tagged Business, David Ricardo, Economic, EU, European Union, Free trade, Ireland, Lisbon Treaty