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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Independent reading, laboratory, or fieldwork in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Requires written report. To be arranged by student and an appropriate MIT faculty member.
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Prereq: 12.TIP
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Program of research leading to the writing of a thesis; to be arranged by the student and an appropriate MIT faculty member.
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Prereq: 12.TIP
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2.00 Credits
Definition of and early-stage work on thesis project or independent study. Students develop a written research proposal and begin writing the supporting text of the thesis concurrent with conducting research for the thesis project or independent study. Supervision of the writing continues into the Spring term which concludes with an oral presentation of the research results.
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Prereq: None
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
No course description available.
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Prereq: None
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0.00 - 6.00 Credits
Undergraduate research opportunities in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
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Prereq: None
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4.00 Credits
Applies microeconomic theory to analysis of public policy. Builds from microeconomic model of consumer behavior; extends to operation of single and multiple markets and analysis of why markets sometimes fail. Empirical examples to evaluate theory, focusing on the casual effects of policy interventions on economic outcomes. Topics include minimum wages and employment, food stamps and consumer welfare, economics of risk and safety regulation, the value of education, and gains from international trade. Graduate students are expected to complete additional assignments.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 14.01
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3.00 Credits
Introduces microeconomic concepts and analysis, supply and demand analysis, theories of the firm and individual behavior, competition and monopoly, and welfare economics. Applications to problems of current economic policy.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Provides an overview of macroeconomic issues: the determination of output, employment, unemployment, interest rates, and inflation. Monetary and fiscal policies are discussed. Important current policy debates such as the sub-prime crisis, social security, the public debt, and international economic issues are critically explored. Introduces basic models of macroeconomics and illustrates principles with the experience of the US and foreign economies.
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Prereq: None
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4.00 Credits
Applies microeconomic theory to analysis of public policy. Builds from microeconomic model of consumer behavior; extends to operation of single and multiple markets and analysis of why markets sometimes fail. Empirical examples to evaluate theory, focusing on the casual effects of policy interventions on economic outcomes. Topics include minimum wages and employment, food stamps and consumer welfare, economics of risk and safety regulation, the value of education, and gains from international trade.
Prerequisite:
Prereq: 14.01
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4.00 Credits
Analysis of consumer and producer decisions including analysis of competitive and monopolistic markets. Price-based partial and general equilibrium analysis. Introduction to game theory as a foundation for the strategic analysis of economic situations. Imperfect competition, dynamic games among firms. Failures of general equilibrium theory and their resolutions: externalities, public goods, incomplete information settings, signaling, screening, insurance, alternative market mechanisms, auctions, design of markets.
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Prereq: 14.01, Calculus II (GIR)
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