<p>Has anyone taken Econ115 before? I just start to read some of the articles from this week's reading list, and realize this class requires a lot of readings. I'm also taking econ 134, econ 119 and UGBA 103(intro to finance), does anyone think this schedule is duable? Will I have a very tough semester or should I drop one of those courses ajd take a decal classes instead? Thanks a lot guys!</p>
<p>Hey, I’m taking 115 too! It does seem like a lot of reading. I’ve also taken Econ 119 and UGBA 103. Pairing all of those along with Econ 134 seems like a bad idea. Why did you decide to take some many major classes at once?</p>
<p>Yeah ha, I take those courses is because I think they are more interesting than the other elective courses, but didn’t expect them to be so much readings. So as your experience, which course do you suggest I should drop to make my semester easier? Thanks a lot!</p>
<p>I would say drop Econ 119 with Acland. I havn’t taken a class with him before but he has low ratings on RatemyProf. Hopefully you can get Econ 119 next year with Koszegi.</p>
<p>Yeah, that is exact what I have thought about, but If I drop it now, I probably need to find another easier class to fulfill the electives course. I’m not sure if i can find that.</p>
<p>Are you graduating this semester? Econ C175 would be a good choice if you can get in.</p>
<p>No, I will graduate next Spring. Let me take a look at econ 175 first.</p>
<p>So why you recommend econ c175? Is it because it is easy or it is worth to take? thx</p>
<p>The material and workload doesn’t seem like it’ll be too hard, and discussion sections are optional. The professor is also good.</p>
<p>Hey Liquidus: I may not register the c175 class because I think I’m not very interested in the topic. But still thanks a lot for your suggestions and good luck to both of us in the Econ 115~</p>
<p>Did any of you guys have section for 115 already? mine’s tomorrow but I still haven’t gotten a reader -___- copy central was closed today i think</p>
<p>Yeah I had a session this Wednesday and the gsi basically review the some of the material from the Tuesday class. And because I have fallen asleep already when reading the chapter 2 about the gold standard, I haven’t even read the reader yet…</p>
<p>Does anyone know if the professor will post the lecture slides somewhere online?</p>
<p>The lecture slides are posted here:</p>
<p>[Econ</a> 115, The World Economy in the Twentieth Century](<a href=“http://emlab.berkeley.edu/users/webfac/eichengreen/e115_sp11/e115.shtml]Econ”>Econ 115, The World Economy in the Twentieth Century)</p>
<p>I’m wondering how much of the reader do we actually need to know for exams.</p>
<p>Cool, thx Liquidus.
I don’t know how much of the reader we should know, but I have read some comments on the ratemyprofessor. Some say the first midterm can be challenging. And if want to get an A in this class, needs to read a lot, but if aiming for a B, one can just listen to the lecture carefully as they say. But I don;t know those comments are accurate or not</p>
<p>Has anyone finished the problem set yet? Do you guys want to go over some of the problems from Part I together here?</p>
<p>I actually had my section and turned it in already. Had some trouble with the IDs but I can try to help if you have a specific question</p>
<p>That’s great, do you understand the essay question 2? What does path dependence mean?</p>
<p>Do the QWERTY reading, the very first one for the semester. </p>
<p>path dependence basically means that something random in history happened that caused one product or institution (qwerty keyboard/gold standard) to become widely adopted and become very integrated in the economy with whole industries dependent on it etc, even though it’s not necessarily the best/most efficient option out there.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot flutterfly_28! Also about the open economy trilemma in part 1, where can I find the explanation why we can only have two of three things: stable exchange rates, international capital mobility, and policy autonomy?</p>