Teaching

Academic Year 2024/25

SOCS0030: Introduction to Economics I, UCL Social Research Institute, BSc Social Sciences with Data Science/BSc Social Science

This is the first part of the Introduction to Economics sequence offered for first-year social science/social science with data science students at UCL SRI. The sequence serves a dual purpose: introducing student to an "economic way of thinking" and teach them a basic microeconomics/macroeconomics toolkit to analyze policy questions relating to, for instance, labor markets, taxation, trade or health care. This first part discusses the foundations of demand and supply and introduces the concept of market failures.

SOCS0103: Psychology and Economics -- An Interdisciplinary Perspective,  UCL Social Research Institute, BSc Social Sciences with Data Science/BSc Social Sciences (joint w/ Lisa Fridkin)

Co-led with my psychologist colleague, Lisa Fridkin, we will discuss the psychological foundations, the empirical relevance and basic economic models behind phenomena such as self-control problems, social preferences or various cognitive biases.

Previous years

SOCS0031: Introduction to Economics II, UCL Social Research Institute, BSc Social Sciences with Data Science

This is the second part of the Introduction to Economics sequence offered for first-year social science/social science with data science students at UCL SRI. We discuss origins and policy solutions to market failures and gives an introduction to macroeconomics.