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Is there a recommended course order?
For someone who has little background in economics, is there a recommended course order? The website appears to list the courses in an arbitrary order. Udacity categorizes courses as Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. Is there a similar ordering for MRU courses?
12 votesHello,
That’s a good question. In general we try to make all of our videos accessible to a beginner. The Everyday content is definitely the most introductory in nature – we’re working on more introductory level content.However, that shouldn’t discourage you from checking out the other courses such as Development Economics or Great Economists. Those are both very accessible as well.
Thanks for your question.
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Make sure the Links you send for the student to register actually work!
The Links you sent me do not work
Des Gahan
7 votesI’m sorry about that. I have emailed you a temporary password so that you can login. Please change your password after that. For any other users having this issue, feel free to email [email protected].
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Awesome and generous! thank you!
Thank you so much for providing this. I RELLY appreciate your time and effort.
This is an awesome resource and useful not only for teaching first timers, but also for a great resource for us weathered economists to pick up illustrative examples to explain to policy makers and others. I'm a huge fan.2 votesThank you Hanna! We greatly appreciate the encouragement and any feedback you have!
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Answered this above – see instructions there.
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Money, investment, savings: the oil for economic wheels
Direct trade is good for small, introductory examples, but real economies run on more finely grained money. Trace how money is earned, spent, saved, invested, spent some more, and grows in the process.
Outstanding lectures so far, thank you. Please continue.
The basics of Western economics are not taught, at least not often, to students in (still Communist) China and India, and immigrants are sometimes baffled by market manipulations, loans, leases, and so forth. Even technical young people, in computer-related industries and IT, often lack the backgrounds in basic Econ to, e.g., understand their mortgages, margin accounts at brokerages, and…
1 voteThank you Rick! We are hoping that our videos make some of these topics easier to understand.
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Please make sure that the information in the practice questions is correct
Please make sure that the information in the practice questions is correct. I just tried to answer one of the practice questions on GDP and it marked my correct answer wrong. I double checked my answer in the book and I was correct and the website was wrong. This problem could cause people to learn false information. :/
3 votesThank you for submitting your concern about the GDP practice question. We take making sure that all of our questions are correct very seriously. We have reviewed all the questions on GDP and can verify that they are all correct. If you can let me know which is the question you think is wrong, we can try address it specifically.
There is one question, the second question in the “Splitting GDP” video, that is a bit of trick question. Maybe this is the one you are referring to. It may seem that the answer should be (e), but it is actually (d). The reason is that not all of government spending is counted in GDP; only government purchases are. For example, social security payouts are government expenses but not purchases, and these are not counted toward GDP. The video explains why this is so: GDP count goods…
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By sharing new Research Articles of Economics with Us
Sharing New Research Articles related to Economics with US
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Present Value - Savings, Investment Spending, and Financial System
Firstly I would just like to say what an excellent and helpful resource you are providing!! Thank you!!
I am currently enrolled in online college courses and taking both Micro and Macro. This site has been incredibly helpful to my learning. This week was Savings, investment Spending, and Financial System, and I am hung up on Present Value... particularly the different manners of calculating it per scenario. I watched all the videos in line with the learning and feel an expansion on this would be most helpful.
Keep up the good work! Can't thank you enough.
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https://sites.google.com/site/individualistmovement/wjfa/overview-video
https://sites.google.com/site/individualistmovement/wjfa/overview-video
Please watch this promotional video and let us know if M R University could use it.
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Please get a graduate student to go through the comments section and clean out the inappropriate advertisements
Please get a graduate student to go through the comments section and clean out the inappropriate advertisements. Some of my students are minors and do not want to get in trouble for exposing them to advertisements for sex workers or images of women in skimpy outfits.
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State purpose of registration and use of data
About https://www.mruniversity.com/user/register user registration:
This website does not make clear what the advantage/purpose of the registration is. It should do so.
Also, if you are aiming for EU users as well it should link to a data usage policy page, explaining storage times and usage of the personal data.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_RegulationRegards
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Excellent videos
These videos are excellent and really helpful to teach and learn.
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Please make a course on mathematics for economists
Please make a course on the mathematics required for economists. As I know the theory of economics but not that good in maths. And I wish to be an economist.
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I feel so marginalized! (which is a good thing on this web site)
Could you in the future do a segment with a little analysis comparing the returns of rental property vs the stock market over the last 50 years? Is the rate of return of equities still higher? Would you also include the effects of tax write-offs and leverage as well? Evidently residential real estate is less volatile than equities and has a lower Sharpe ratio. Does that mean one should use leverage more freely with real estate than stocks to boost returns?
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Need videos on the Grossman Model
Do you happen to have videos specifically on the Grossman Model, Social Determinants of Health, Health care Insurance Market, and health care reform in relation to consumer choice. Formulas and calculations in relation to this would be very helpful.
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