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Administrivia!

< http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/econ-2-spring-2014/ > < http://tinyurl.com/ucbecon2spring2014 > Econ 2: Spring 2014 February 10, 2014 J. Bradford DeLong U.C. Berkeley. Administrivia!. Archiving lecture slides (with commentary)… Problem Set 2… Further Reading… What we are doing this week…

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Administrivia!

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  1. <http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/econ-2-spring-2014/> <http://tinyurl.com/ucbecon2spring2014> Econ 2: Spring 2014 February 10, 2014 J. Bradford DeLong U.C. Berkeley Administrivia!

  2. Archiving lecture slides (with commentary)… Problem Set 2… Further Reading… What we are doing this week… Lego Movie! Things Going On…

  3. So I rerecorded, with better audio pickups, and along the way removed the “ums” and repeated passages, and also streamlined the slides… The files are being tested and checked now, and many of them are up: have a look at: http://tinyurl.com/dl20140210a<> Taped Lecture Quality Was too Low…

  4. Wanted to get a detailed look at Problem Set 1… Wanted to give people a couple of days after the section on the problem set to do it… Means it has to be due on Wednesday… Problem: President’s Day… Implications: Problem Set 2 due Wed Feb 26 Problem Set 2 extra-long—4 points rather than 3 Problem Set 3 follows immediately—but short, and 2 points rather than 3… Problem Set 2: A Failure of Central Planning

  5. Further Reading: Friedrich von Hayek, "Competition as a Discovery Procedure” <http://tinyurl.com/dl20140210b> Friedrich von Hayek, "The Use of Knowledge in Society” <http://tinyurl.com/dl20140210c> Roy Radford, "The Economic Organization of a POW Camp” <http://tinyurl.com/dl20140210d> Commercial for This Week’s Further Reading

  6. Today: Administrivia Quotas, Taxes, Permits Tonight: Problem Set 2 out Wednesday: Externalities: Pigou and Property Delineation Later Further Reading: Friedrich von Hayek, "Competition as a Discovery Procedure” <http://tinyurl.com/dl20140210b>; Friedrich von Hayek, "The Use of Knowledge in Society” <http://tinyurl.com/dl20140210c>; Roy Radford, "The Economic Organization of a POW Camp” <http://tinyurl.com/dl20140210d> Sections: Problem Set 2, etc. What We Are Doing This Week

  7. EVERYTHING IS SUPER-AWESOME!! $69.1M opening weekend Beating (since 1/1/14) “Ride Along”, which had $40M “Monument Men”: $27.1M “Vampire Academy”: $4.1M Commercial for The LEGO Movie!

  8. EVERYTHING IS SUPER-AWESOME!! $69.1M opening weekend Rotten Tomatoes: 95% FRESH CinemaScore audience grade: A Fox News is: “not amused by 'Lego Movie' villain Lord Business” To which I say “WTF?!?!” Did they watch the movie?! Commercial for The LEGO Movie! II

  9. EVERYTHING IS SUPER-AWESOME!! $69.1M opening weekend “Monument Men”: $27.1M EAT LEGO BRIC DUST, GEORGE CLOONEY!!!! “Vampire Academy”: $4.1M VAMPIRES SUCK!!!! Commercial for The LEGO Movie! III

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