Professor David Friedman
Fall 2010
The course will have a midterm and a final.
The text is David Friedman, Law's
Order. It is available both as hardcopy and (free) online.
Law's
Order: Webbed page images with virtual
footnotes
Law's Order: HTML text of a late
draft (no virtual footnotes)
Recordings
of Lectures
Lecture Notes from a previous year
(at SCU, not SJSU): HTML
Word
One way of remembering ideas is by the stories that go with them--from the Bionic Burglar Alarm to the Rational Voodoo Killer. Here is a list of story titles that you may find useful. We will cover all of them by the end of the semester
Spring 2008 (SJSU) Midterm With Answers HTML Word
Midterm Spring 1997 (SCU)
Midterm Fall 1995 (SCU)
Midterm 2000 (SCU)
Final Fall 1995 (SCU)
Final Spring 2005 (SCU) HTML Word
Final Spring 2005 (SCU)
with answers HTML Word
My Price Theory textbook is webbed; you may find parts of it useful for explaining economic concepts in more detail than the lecture and the lecture notes. They include:
Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, which present a general introduction to economics.
Chapter 11, which discusses strategic behavior, game theory, et. al.
Chapter 15, which discusses economic efficiency and related concepts.
Chapter 18, which discusses market failure problems, including externalities.
Additional chapters are available through the table of contents page.