Unless you have heard from me telling you otherwise, the grades on Blackboard reflect your final grade for this course. I will submit these grades to CUNYfirst on Tuesday.
If for some reason (visa, employment, scholarship, etc.) you absolutely require a formal acknowledgement of your grade before Tuesday, please let me know. Otherwise, I hope Blackboard satisfies your curiosity sufficiently.
Thank you all for a rewarding semester.
Additional Resources:
Darrick Hamilton is a professor at the my graduate department. He is a BedStuy native who works on revolutionary expansionary policy and talks here about the limits of monetary policy and its interaction with stocks and politics. We didn’t watch in class but I suspect it is of interest to many:
Resources from class:
Kelton, Stephanie. (2018, August 20). Interview with Fareed Zakaria. CNN.
Lu, Marcus. (2020, October 30). “Charting America’s Debt: $27 Trillion and Counting.” Visual Capitalist. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/americas-debt-27-trillion-and-counting/
November 10 at 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm | Zoom / Eventbrite
Join us for a talk by economist Dr. Rhonda Vonshay Sharpe. Dr. Sharpe is the Founder and President of the Women’s Institute for Science, Equity and Race (WISER) and board member of the International Association for Feminist Economics and Diversifying and Decolonizing Economics.
Dr. Sharpe will be speaking about the Importance of Disaggregating Data to Measure Inequality.
RSVP for this event to receive the Zoom link.
Dr. Sharpe is the co-editor of the Review of Black Political Economy and served as the past President of the National Economic Association. In 2020, she was selected to serve on the Center for American Progress’ National Advisory Council on Eliminating the Black-White Wealth Gap. She is the co-founder (with Sandy Darity) of the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE), for which she served as the Associate Director from 2008 to 2014.
Dr. Sharpe’s research focuses on three areas: gender and racial inequality, the diversity of STEM, and the demography of higher education. Her research has been featured on the PBS News Hour, in the New York Times, and on the Kerri Miller Show. She is a recurring guest on the BBC’s Business Matters.
This talk is sponsored by the Department of Social Sciences, Human Services, and Criminal Justice, the Economics Program and the Economics, Equality and Environment Academic Club.
If you have any questions, contact Professor Christine Farias at cfarias@bmcc.cuny.edu or Roshelle Sumner at bmcceeeclub@gmail.com.
Drawing on the skills we’ve been honing in class on Wednesdays, we completed our first Question Building (QB) assessment in class on Wednesday, September 30th.
Al asked students to respond to the following prompts:
A) What is something you have learned in our class?
B) What is something you would like to learn in our class?
In order to get full credit (10 of 10 possible points), answers needed to meet the following criteria:
Responses to part A:
– came from something we had either talked about in class or encountered in class materials (readings, videos, etc.)
– were a piece of information (not just a topic)
Responses to part B:
– were related to what we have done in class so far
– were stated as a question
An example of a 10/10 response is:
A) I learned that a positive statement is a statement about the way the world is whereas a normative statement is about how someone wants the world to be.
B) I want to know: What is the relationship between GDP growth and job growth?
Students who completed this assignment in class were given the opportunity to workshop their responses with other students and with Al. Students who did not complete the assignment in class can submit their responses to Al over email or before or after class next week (Week 7).
On Monday, August 31st, we made it through slide 9. While you are welcome to scroll through the rest of the presentation, you are not required to.
Lecture-Week2Hello All! I am looking forward to working with you this semester. You may call me Al (that’s spelled ay el, not ay eye). My pronouns are they/them. I have been teaching at BMCC since the Spring 2019 semester. I’m really grateful to be working here with the committed faculty and students I have met. I believe that anyone can learn economics because everybody engages with their local economy as part of daily living!
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