Learning
is not attained by chance; it must be sought for with ardor and attended to
with diligence. (Abigail Adams, 1780).
The
study of economics does not seem to require any specialised
gifts of an
unusually high order. Is it not, intellectually regarded, a very difficult
subject compared with the higher branches of philosophy and pure science? Yet
good, or even competent, economists are the rarest of birds. An easy subject,
at which very few excel! The paradox finds its explanation, perhaps, in that
the master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts. He must
reach a high standard in several different directions and must combine talents
not often found together. He must be mathematician, historian, statesman,
philosopher—in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He
must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and
concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light
of the past for the purposes of the future. No part of man's nature or his
institutions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and
disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist,
yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician. (John Maynard Keynes, Essays in Biography (1933), 170.)
I
hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand.
Dr.
Christopher Marmé
Professor.
Department of Economics.
Co-Chair. Department of Economics
Frank
Strohkarck Professor of Business and Economics
115
Evald Hall
(309)
794-7514
Email:
chrismarme@augustana.edu
Spring
Semester 2024
BUSN 311 Applied Statistics
9:00-10:15 MWF 113 Evald. (first seven weeks)
ECON 345. Money and Banking. 8:30-10:10:00 Tu TH 113 Evald.
ECON 406. Development Economics. 12:20-2:00 Tu TH 113 Evald.
Office hours: MW 1:00-2:30, Tuesdays 2:30-3:30 OR
BY APPOINTMENT! (In 115 Evald or over Google Meet.)
Follow these links to the web pages for the
following classes:
- ECON406. The Economics of Development.
- ECON200. Principles of Economics.
- ECON345. Money and Banking.
- BUSN311. Business Statistics II.
- BUSN331. Financial Management.
- ECON408 Senior Seminar in Economics.
- ECON362 International Finance
- ECON301 Intermediate Macroeconomics
If we are working together, regardless of the
class, you should read this: Learning (Your First Job) by Robert
Leamnson
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taking from me and what section of that class you are in.)
Click here for help with study skills.
Why are you here? Check out the following
link! Liberal Arts at Augustana.
Also look at this piece published in the Williams Alumni Review.
Useful sites:
Things statistical and mathematical.
Annual
report on the condition of America's infrastructure.
An absolutely fantastic site maintained by Real PAC (the
real property association of Canada)
Macroeconomic Time Series Data Source Locator
Webpage for Analysis of Financial Time Series.
Pretend that you're chair of the Fed
A History of Economic Thought (William J. Barber)
American Public Media Marketplace
Chicago
Encyclopedia of History.
Education Portal (Macroeconomics)
(Check this out/from Study.com)
Personal: Music. Notes and
Ideas (A very old blog. Have
not had the time to maintain.)