Welcome to web pages maintained by Mark E. McBride, a Professor in the Economics Department of the Richard T. Farmer School of Business. Miami University uses Blackboard for it's myMiami site and for the provision of course materials. My course materials are available from myMiami. These web pages provide additional materials and links for my teaching and research interests.

Here are a few interesting sites.
Blogs about Economics abound on the web these days. A different approach that’s starting to appear is podcasts.

• Freakonomics Radio (podcast)

The Technology, Entertainment, and Design conference is held every year. While all the talks are very interesting, several for economics students I would recommend are:

• Dan Ariely on Behavioral Economics


• Lawrence Lessig on creativity and the law


• Steve Levitt on drug dealers


• Hans Rosling on global data about health, income, and poverty


• Hans Rosling is even better the second time around in 2007 You can see the data visualizations that Hans Rosling presented at: www.gapminder.org

Google Talks is also an interesting source of presentations by authors and other notable individuals. While many of the talks are very interesting, here are some I would recommend for economics students:

• Robert Frank speaks about his book The Economic Naturalist


• Richard Thaler speaks about his book Nudge


• Dan Ariely speaks about his book Predictably Irrational


• Garr Reynolds on presentation styles. You can find his Presentation Zen site here.

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